Reviving an old thread...

I recently bought an 86duino One board from DMP Electronics INC. (Taiwan based). The board includes a System on Chip (SoC) Vortex86 300Mhz x86 processor and runs DOS programs by default.
There are 3 different boards available (Zero, One, and EduCake), each with different I/O capabilities, though all have an SD card reader, Serial, and GPIO.

This board seems like it might have potential to achieve a "Perl on Chip" solution. Of course perl would have to compiled to execute a default script when the device is booted up.

Click here for an image of the chip
On the other hand, the device is basically a miniature PC with onboard RAM, a full OS can be installed (Linux, DOS, Windows) and a perl script can be executed after booting up.