Update:

> http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/35319.wss
> So it seems the new Chinese Power Architecture SoCs are not based on
> new cores but on IBM's PPC4xx core family.

The relevant ASIA PAC presentations are online:

https://www.power.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/2.CCore_Mr._Jian_Zheng.pdf (translation)
https://www.power.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/6.Chinachip_Mr._Walter_Li_upd.pdf (translation)
https://www.power.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/9._VeriSilicon_Rui_Wang.pdf

This is what I could take from them:

C*Core: C8000 (0.8 to 1.2 GHz) and C9000 (1.2 to 1.5 GHz) chips based on PPC460 or PPC476FP cores (roadmap depiction)

Chinachip & VeriSilicon: CC2000 chip* based on PPC460 or PPC476FP cores with HD audio, 2D/3D GPU (OpenGL ES, OpenVG), DSP, USB, SATA2 etc.


* Interesting comments from end of 2010:

"The next generation of consoles will be based on the CC2000 and expected to roll out by Q2 next year. The CC2000 will be announced in a month or so, and I've been kindly asked not to reveal the details, but as you can imagine, it's beast compared to the JZ4732 and CC1800."
http://www.dingux.com/2010/11/back-from-china.html

"by next year, the CC1800 will be obsolete and underpowered compared to other competitors in the PMP market. The CC2000 will be a bit more expensive, but here they have no choice but to move on or lag behind. Note that the CC2000 has a powerful GPU. [...] Note that the CC2000 processor uses DDR RAM, whose widespread usage makes it cheaper than the SDRAM used by the JZ4732 and CC1800. This means 256MB in the next generation consoles may probably cost the same or less than 64MB in the current generation consoles."
http://www.dingux.com/2010/12/clarifications-on-previous-post.html

...and from May 2011:

"According to my notes from when I was there, CC2000 is PPC architecture (PPC476+FPU+DSP+2D/3D GPU), clocked @ 700-800MHz."
http://www.dingux.com/2011/05/new-gemei-x760.html?showComment=1306365873622#c8385640607435095182

ASIA PAC presentation videos:
Part 1: Welcome and Introduction Speech & The Progress and Prospect of Chinese IC Industry & Opening Remark by Kai Wang VP Freescale & C Core Evolution and Prospect & Building Watson, Deep QA Technology Overview and a Brief of Jeopardy!
Part 2: Power Architecture 20 Years of Innovation & Why Power, Why Now? & Smart World, Great Opportunity - Introducing a High Performance End User Platform Chip for Cloud Devices
Part 3: Executive Round Table Discussion "Think Power for the Future"
Part 4: Freescale Vision for Power Architecture Based Multicore Solutions & Verisilicon Open Platform for Power PC Based SoC
Part 5: LSI Axxia Communication Processor Overview & Synopsys Advancing Engineering Education Using Power Architecture

Edit: link to C*Core roadmap added
Edit2: PDF links updated.
Edit3: Youtube links added.

[ Edited by Andreas_Wolf 25.10.2012 - 22:52 ]