Where does one find more details about this press announcement?
Sounds like big things are happening on the Arduino hardware side of things. I would expect something soon to be posted on the main arduino site/blog section.
Would expect to get more info tomorrow http://makerfaire.com/pub/e/7087
Gonna make me end up having to look at data sheets aren't you. Sheesh.
Here's the question.. what's the price point compared to the typical ATMEGA328 "actual" Arduino or clone?
I'm also curious as to how this works out in the long run.. I'd love more I/O's, memory, speed, etc. The thing I wonder about is that these aren't processors that most hobbyists can handle easily. I'm thinking of picking up one of the 40-pin AVR's to mess around with, but that's really the upper end of pins that are used in DIP packages. Of course that's nothing new, the Mega and all that are Surface mount packages- proof I'm getting old, if this keeps up, soon I might have to ask for Reader's Digest Large Type version of components. Big magnifying lens light on a swing arm has already been added to the "must get" list..
Sounds like we have some awesome new toys coming.. going to be interesting to see how the new capabilities will be integrated into the Arduino "world"....
I just viewed their presentation slides on the blog. Nice! Too bad only the first 6 forum members made to the list of greatest users 
Lots of lessons learned. They must have a lot of stories that they can't tell.
Sounds like we have some awesome new toys coming.. going to be interesting to see how the new capabilities will be integrated into the Arduino "world"....
Yes, interesting times ahead. However there will also be some chaos and confusion as newcomers using the then latest and greatest board will want to know why so many of the user contributed libraries don't work with the latest 32 bit arduino board. Having both 32 bit and 8 bit processors supported by the same IDE (that's an assumption on my part) is bound to have lots of side effects.
Lefty
Having both 32 bit and 8 bit processors supported by the same IDE (that's an assumption on my part) is bound to have lots of side effects.
Yet hundreds of possibilities! It has been something I have wondered about lots - (when) will arduino start to include other microcontrollers? I designed some PCBs (pen-and-paper, not-to-size-or-accurate-or-anything-else PCBs) that could allow ATtinies to be programmed easily, but they can already. No need there then!
To have an ARM arduino (ARMduino?) sounds phenomenal though! I soooo have to buy myself one. I considered buying an mbed once because it was ARM based, although it never happened. This sounds like an oportunity to do some serious tinkering! 
Onions.
both 32 bit and 8 bit processors supported by the same IDE
I gather that AVR Studio 5 now has explicit support for Arduino, maybe that's where you'll program for the 32-bit board.
Rob
I gather that AVR Studio 5 now has explicit support for Arduino, maybe that's where you'll program for the 32-bit board.
Is that a fact? I hadn't heard that. Mostly about all the bugs in version 5 over at AVRfreaks site, as it is still a beta release I think.
Lefty
http://code.google.com/p/avr-project-ide/
I don't know if this has credence (is that site official in any way? maybe just a personal project) but it sounds interesting.
It may finally put to bed all the "why don't they make the IDE more..." threads.
I get why the IDE is brain dead and it's very appropriate for maybe 80% of Arduino users but the other 20% all have their own makefile/netbeans/eclipse/you-name-it system in place.
To have a real IDE would be great.
I don't have AS5 yet, it's way too large for me to download until it's stable and I only have to do it once.
Rob