> The only new interesting 32bit PPC CPU today, is the 8610.

What about the 8640? It's even newer than the 8610 :-)

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=11&topic_id=6465&start=89

> I'm not aware of any new e600 chips in the pipeline?

Refer to:

http://www.power.org/events/powercon09/china09/Freescale_QorIQ_Program_Overview_Jeffrey_Ho.pdf (pages 6/9, 2 months old)
http://www.power.org/events/powercon09/taiwan09/Freescale_QorIQ_Program%20Overview_Tiger_Chun.pdf (pages 6/9, 2 months old)
http://www.freescale.com.cn/cstory/ftf/2009/download/net_f0345.pdf (pages 11/14, 3.5 months old)
http://www.freescale.com/files/training_pdf/VFTF09_AN151.pdf (pages 11/14, 5 months old)
http://www.freescale.com/files/training_pdf/vFTF09_AN148.pdf (page 5, 5 months old)
http://www.freescale.com/files/netcomm/doc/fact_sheet/NET-16637_QorIQOvrvwFS_v4LR_SNGLS.pdf (page 5, 6.5 months old)

Seems like Freescale going full steam QorIQ, leaving e600 behind, unfortunately.


Edit: Added a 6th PDF file link.

[ Edited by Andreas_Wolf on 2011/3/18 1:00 ]