>> The 440EP and 460EX are just not expensive enough to support your reasoning.

> Yes, Acube are not yet known for sane prices.

I'm not sure you got my point.

> I think I read it in a Freescale newsletter, but I am not too sure any more. I think there is
> something like the e5500 a 64 bit core derived from e500 for QorIQ in the pipeline

You're spot on. Thanks for info :-)

Introduction of the 64 bit dual e5500 core based QorIQ P5020 processor (also to be available as single core P5010):

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

Seems that "e5500" became the official designation of what was called "e500mc64" before:

http://www.google.com/search?q=e500mc64

Other FTF presentations with references to P5020/P5010/e5500/e500mc64:

http://www.freescale.com/files/ftf_2010/Americas/WBNR_FTF10_NET_F0425.pdf (pages 11 to 14, 16 and 26)
http://www.freescale.com/files/ftf_2010/Americas/WBNR_FTF10_NET_F0444_PDF.pdf (page 20)
http://www.freescale.com/files/ftf_2010/Americas/WBNR_FTF10_NET_F0676.pdf (pages 13/14 and 22)
http://www.freescale.com/files/ftf_2010/Americas/WBNR_FTF10_NET_F0691.pdf (page 3)
http://www.freescale.com/files/ftf_2010/Americas/WBNR_FTF10_NET_F0704.pdf (pages 9 and 11)
http://www.freescale.com/files/ftf_2010/Americas/WBNR_FTF10_NET_F0874.pdf (pages 7/8)
http://www.freescale.com/files/ftf_2010/Americas/WBNR_FTF10_ENT_F0748.pdf (page 42)
http://www.freescale.com/files/ftf_2010/Americas/WBNR_FTF10_NET_F0598_PDF.pdf (pages 4, 16 and 18)
http://www.freescale.com/files/ftf_2010/Americas/WBNR_FTF10_NET_F0707.pdf (pages 17 and 19/20)
http://www.freescale.com/files/ftf_2010/Americas/WBNR_FTF10_NET_F0421.pdf (pages 10 and 15/16, with later P5020 release dates than officially announced ones)
http://www.freescale.com/files/ftf_2010/Americas/FTF10_ENT_F0453.pdf (pages 6 and 80)
http://www.freescale.com/files/ftf_2010/Americas/FTF10_ENT_F0273.pdf (pages 5/6 and 13, with confused families)
http://www.freescale.com/files/ftf_2010/Americas/FTF10_IND_F0427.pdf (pages 6/7, with confused families and confused cores)


Edit: Added some more FTF presentation links.

[ Edited by Andreas_Wolf on 2010/7/18 23:46 ]