[dragontamer]

It'd be nice to have an idea of how affordable it would get. For now, the $3000 dev kit is the only solid price we can work with...

[wmf]

For the motherboard+processor I would predict at most $200 for the quad core and $350 for the 8-core version.

[dragontamer]

If you're talking motherboard + processor... They'd have to do better than that to beat Intel Atom.

http://www.serversdirect.com/Components/Motherboards/id-MB46...

Oct-core Atom, Integrated IPMI, 4xGBe ports for $360. And since it is an x86 platform, you don't have any software migration issues.

[wmf]

That's my point of comparison. Best case, if Seattle can be slightly faster than Avoton with better I/O and the customers get high on ARM hype, AMD could charge at most the same price as Avoton. Most likely it will be cheaper.

[Symmetry]

It's not a solid price, I don't think I've ever seen a dev board for less than 5X the price of a product.