> Not that MorphOS gets hindred by these compounds, but I guess they are > rather bad for the wallet.
Yes, probably. We'll see what the price tag for the P5010 is going to be.
> On teh other hand the other QorIQs have also some fancy stuff on board > and are not too expensive.
I wonder how the price of the P5010 will compare to the one of the eight-core P4080, which Freescale sell currently for as much as 380 USD.
> unfortunately the 5500 has not Altivec.
Yes, that's sad. If it would implement Power ISA 2.06's VSX at least...
> if someone would try to build new hardware for MorphOS now I would > still rather recommend MPC 8610 or 8640.
Yes, reasonable choice. But that train left the station, I fear.
> The P5010 could be a good alternative to the ibm 476
Do you mean the LSI Axxia? After all, the IBM PPC476 ist just a core while the P5010 is a complete SoC CPU. If yes, I think the dual-core P5020 to be a better alternative to the dual or quad-core Axxia because the P5010 is only single-core.
