> All mention of the e700 just disappeared.

All the more strange that a Freescale presentation as recent as June 2010 mentions the e700 (see my links).

> I guess Freescale didn't see a market for it.

Considering that the e5500 actually is what the e700 was supposed to be after Apple's Intel switch announcement (which made Freescale change the e700's base from e600 to e500) they apparently see a market for it again.

> The P5 surprised me

The information that there will be a P5 outdoing the P4 in performance was published by Freescale when they introduced the QorIQ family and announced its first (P1, P2 and P4) members in June 2008. The P5's exact nature was not revealed back then, though. What surprised me in particular with the P5 was that it's a 64-bit chip. I didn't see that coming until few hours before the official announcement.