> it is [...] IIUC the basis for some servers. Just follow the links in the freescale document.

In case you refer to the Nexcom NSA 5640, it seems to have a very similar board as the T4240RDB, but not exactly the same. For instance, the NSA 5640 seems to have a Mini PCIe x1 slot where the T4240RDB has a normal PCIe x4 slot.

>> T4240QDS has been made available

> I'd love to see how well the dedicated hardware could handle [...] video codecs.

Just stumbled upon this from two years ago:

"We also did some x264 performance benchmarks on a current Freescale/NXP T4240 Power CPU (24 e6500 cores available) with Altivec support enabled. Up to a parallelization of 8 to 10 threads you get some performance benefits with each additional thread on this platform. Beyond that parallelization grade you see quite significant performance saturation effects - presumably due to Altivec resource and CoreNet bandwidth limitations."
https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/x264-devel/2016-January/011583.html

That should read 12 cores available or 24 concurrent threads (although Freescale/NXP literature is equally misleading referring to "24 virtual cores"), but that post is interesting.
Thanks.
I'm trying to find a vendor with a NSB 5640 right now.