I'm excited for the future but also quite skeptical, I'm not sure what they'll do with the Commodore IP that would be worth it thirty years later. They have to choose a niche in the market and no matter what route they go with it, there are risks involved.
As you mentioned, the Amiga licenses were all sold off separately and are owned by Cloanto and Hyperion now. It's a shame, if Amiga survived through the industry's move to 3D I like to think they'd be a big competitor against the likes of NVIDIA. There have been attempts to bring the Amiga platform back on the PowerPC architecture but they've been unsuccessful.
It seems like the route they're going is to provide resources to Commodore-inspired fan projects and in that case I think the best place to start would be to openly sponsor development of the
Commander X16. The X16 is it's own completely original platform with a lot of potential and a large fanbase. There are also efforts to recreate legacy hardware using FPGAs which are good for preservation, these are usually DIY or made by individuals so having an actual company to support it can make a real difference.
The very tricky part of all of this is that the industry around these companies has changed. You can only deviate so far from their legacy before they become unrecognizable, but the things that used to succeed on the market decades ago no longer do. I've heard some argue in the past that modernizing Commodore would make it not Commodore anymore, that's a valid concern. Retro enthusiasm will always be niche though, too. Bringing back a company that's been gone for so long will be difficult to put it lightly.
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