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[jdiffend]

Freescale Semiconductor (formerly part of Motorola) has updated the roadmap for their CPUs & micro-controllers. That includes the Coldfire and PowerPC chips.

It now lists Coldfire MPUs in 2007... which may indicate they plan on producing a stand alone CPU rather than just embedded parts. This is listed as subject to change but would be a significant reversal of their previous plans.

Superscalar is now listed at the end of 2007... which means sometime in the future. :{

The PowerPC only has 3 new products listed while the Coldfire has more than 10.

http://www.freescale.com/files/archives/doc/roadmap/COLDFIRERD.pdf

[billt]

> The PowerPC only has 3 new products listed while
> the Coldfire has more than 10.

Considering the filename is COLDFIRERD.pdf, I'm suprised there'd be any PowerPC stuff on it.

There's a seperate file talking about the MPC500 PowerPC family at http://www.freescale.com/files/microcontrollers/doc/roadmap/MPC500RD.pdf

I've seen another roadmap regarding the 85xx and 8641 lines, but can't seem to find a link on their web page. There's a good deal more coming for PowerPC than only what's on your Coldfire roadmap. Ah, finally found it in http://www.freescale.com/files/sndf/doc/reports_presentations/SNDF2004_EUROPE_P1302.pdf
on one of the last few pages. I hope I typed that link right, my copy/paste even in the menu is not working at the moment (Solaris Firefox is flakey!) This file is the "High Performance Processors Presentation SDNF Europe ..." link on the e600 products page if you need to find the link yourself.