Merlancia
Press Release #MMC29072K1
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
29th July 2001
Merlancia Industries
3516A West Cactus Road
Phoenix, AZ 85029 USA
1-977-53-AMIGA | ++1 602-789-0956
http://www.merlancia.com | merlancia@merlancia.com
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Amiga, Inc
http://www.amiga.com | vince@amiga.com
Merlancia Industries Announces Purchase of Walker
and MCC Designs
Merlancia Industries is pleased to announce the purchase of the legendary
Amiga Walker and MCC designs.
The Walker and MCC designs (created by Frogdesign and Pentagram respectively)
are now owned exclusively by Merlancia Industries. These designs will be
implemented in Merlancia's MMC/Torro line of multimedia PowerPC products.
The Walker case, designed in 1995-6 by Frogdesign for Escom AG will
be implemented in a Space Conservative Desktop unit; expressly useful for
offices and cramped desks. The Walker design, currently Merlancia Radian,
will feature a PowerPC G3 or G4 (750 and 7410 resp.) processor with an
advanced graphics chipset and will be targeted for sale around the $1500
to $2000 price point.
The MCC case, designed in 1999 by Pentagram was planned as Amiga's Multimedia
Convergence Console. Merlancia will be implementing this design for its
Apocalypse DT and ST series systems, based on the PowerPC 7xx and 8xxx
series processors. The MCC design will be implemented in set top box and
low cost desktop packages based on the X-Casting Broadband Video delivery
method next year for prices ranging between $699 and $1299.
Dr. Ryan E. A. Czerwinski, CEO of Merlancia Industries comments "We
anticipate minor styling changes and modifications, as needed for the implementation
of our hardware, none of which will effect the beauty or harmony of the
case designs. We will be producing the cases out of stainless steel, with
the possibility of other materials being available as well."
Bill McEwen, President & CEO of Amiga, Inc said "As Amiga has transformed
itself to a Software company, having Merlancia build new products based
on these designs is exciting, and we look forward to seeing more great
products from the Merlancia team".
About Merlancia:
Merlancia Industries is a technologies company specializing in the design
and manufacture of industrial and consumer multimedia and internet appliances
and workstations. Merlancia Industries is a privately held Corporation
with offices in Phoenix, AZ USA and Frankfurt Germany.
About Amiga:
Amiga Inc. provides technology to developers for writing and porting
applications to a new multi-media operating systems which is hardware agnostic.
AmigaDE is a joint development effort between the Tao Group of Reading
England, and Amiga Incorporated. AmigaDE based applications can run unchanged
on x86, PowerPC, M Core, ARM, StrongARM, MIPS R3000, R4000, R5000, SH3,
SH4, and NEC V850 processors. AmigaDE can run hosted on Linux, Embedded
Linux, Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, CE and QNX4. Amiga is based in Snoqualmie,
WA, 28 miles east of Seattle and has offices worldwide. Amiga can be reached
at (425) 396-5660 or visit Amiga on the web at www.amiga.com.
PR Contact: Malcolm J. Brenner - m.brenner@merlancia.com
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