Echad un vistazo a esto que he leido en la web oficial del ripper:
Move to actel
After big success of The RIPPER 2 and after we added a lot of new features we decided to change main integrated circuit to Actel.
2 months ago Actel company offered us all necessary equipment to switch production from Xilinx to Actel FPGA for FREE.
Decision was made because of the fact that we don’t have enough space for future motherboard revisions and new functionality.
The price will remain unchanged.
New chips will start hitting the market from January 2004. Basically, at the beginning, all new Actel based chips will have the functionality of The Ripper 2 GOLD Edition with small changes.
We plan to add only all NTSC consoles from US to Japanese market in one single piece of electronics.
We will upgrade HDD support for V3 to V7 and we have something special for you, now in a big secret 
En definitiva nos viene a decir que van a cambiar el XILINX por un Actel. El precio del ripper no variará, y se empezaron a distribuir desde enero (eso dicen). Básicamente tendrá las mismas características que el mod anterior con pequeños cambios, creo traducir que servirá también para las NTSC JAP y USA, y actualizarán el soporte para que reconozca el disco duro desde v3 a v7.
Además dice que tienen algo especial, pero es un gran secreto...
A ver qué pasa!!!!!!!!!!
