> The first e500 based SoC that would be suitable will be the
> upcoming QorIQ P4 sub-family with its e500mc core

Today, Freescale announced the sampling of the QorIQ P4080.

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Looks like you are quite knowledgeable regarding freescale's product line, or at least you come across that way. I guess I will count on you to let us know when something really interesting comes out that might make a good chip to base the next MorphOS computer on.

I can't remember how I stumbled across that site and read about those chips, but most of it is over my head.

> I can't remember how I stumbled across that site

freescale.com -> "See all" [products] -> "Power Architecture"

...would lead to that specific page :-)

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Andreas is much more than knowledgeable: He hunts for interesting news and remembers about a four months old thread that mentioned somethig about it. That's impressive. I've been into forums since many years, and never found such a person.

In all, you can almost feel free to forget about anything, that Andreas will point you exactly to it afterwards. Of course, that's a bit too much, but it's my impression.

I've asked Andreas severral times about his metodology, to be able to do these amazing things. It seems he remembers ewverything! I wonder if he has some kind of knowledge database or something.

Not having an amigaworld.net account I'll ask here.

Zylesea claimed over there:

"there are plans to move QorIQ to 64 bit."
http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=31439&forum=33&start=60#555581

Anybody know anything about this or can provide a reliable source?

As you can also see, Andreas ignores me systemmaticaly. It's curious, I've asked him a couple of times, about how he organizes so much information.
In another thread he gave some details, and made me think it's all in his head, which I find amazing, and would like to know more.

> Andreas ignores me systemmaticaly. It's curious, I've asked him a couple of times,
> about how he organizes so much information.

While the thread topic is "Content Processing" it's not about me or any other forum member doing so, but about Power Architecture CPUs ;-)

> he [...] made me think it's all in his head

This, and an ability to make proper use of search engines.

> I [...] would like to know more.

There's nothing more to it.

Thankyou Andreas! This confirms the guy is amazing. Now, back to "content processing", sorry for the off topic...

> Now, back to "content processing"

...and to my question regarding Zylesea's claim about plans to move QorIQ to 64 bit :-)

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> The first e500 based SoC that would be suitable will be the upcoming
> QorIQ P4 sub-family with its e500mc core (and with P3 and P5 following).

Seems the first QorIQ P3 and P5 sub-families's members are going to be announced shortly.

Nice table on page 38 (document dating August 2009(!)):
http://www.ebv.com/fileadmin/products/Press_Print/Brochures/MIP/2009_08_11%20MIP%202_2009_lowres.pdf
(including P3040, P3041, P3042, P3043 and P5020)

QorIQ roadmap on page 36 (as of April 2010):
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.freescale.com/files/training/doc/FREESCALE_COMPANY_OVERVIEW.pdf
(and an interesting i.MX roadmap on page 26)


Edit: P3041 and P5020/P5010 got quasi-announced.

http://www.freescale.com/files/ftf_2010/Americas/WBNR_FTF10_NET_F0874.pdf
http://www.freescale.com/files/ftf_2010/Americas/WBNR_FTF10_NET_F0712.pdf

More information:
https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=7001&forum=3&start=217


Edit: Changed FTF presentation URLs.
Edit2: Changed link to Freescale company overview PDF to Google cache because document is no more.

[ Edited by Andreas_Wolf on 2010/7/18 19:33 ]
[ Edited by Andreas_Wolf on 2011/1/3 22:08 ]

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People, get a look at these new CPUs. Not primarily aimed at desktop computing, but very serious looking!

I bet an evaluation board costs a fortune... A constant mistake from freescale.

> P3041 and P5020/P5010 got quasi-announced.

The press releases have been put online:
http://media.freescale.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=196520&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1440425
http://media.freescale.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=196520&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1440426

Product pages:
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=P5020
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=P3041

e5500 core (formerly called "e500mc64") introduction:
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/homepage.jsp?code=64BIT

Product PDF files:
http://www.freescale.com/files/64bit/doc/white_paper/64BTTCHNLGYWP.pdf
http://www.freescale.com/files/64bit/doc/fact_sheet/QP5020FS.pdf
http://www.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/fact_sheet/QP3041FS.pdf

Announcement video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9jdnHigC5U

Andreas, all this informations you are gathering deserve its own thread.

> all this informations you are gathering deserve its own thread.

Then feel free to start one. You may reference my postings in your new thread :-)

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Andreas, the man with the most information, that never starts threads!