> A PPC for the 4G market? I am confused as to the market for this component.

We already talked about the QorIQ Qonverge there:

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=11&topic_id=8901&start=27

More reading material:

http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/overview.jsp?code=SRVCPROV
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/overview.jsp?code=QORIQ_QONVERGE
http://www.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/brochure/BRSMALLCELLS.pdf
http://www.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/white_paper/QORIQQONVERGEWP.pdf
http://www.freescale.com/files/rf_if/doc/white_paper/SMCELLRFWP.pdf
http://www.freescale.com/files/industrial/doc/brochure/ENEAUPDTCSTY.pdf
http://www.freescale.com/files/training/doc/dwf/DWF13_JNK_NET_T0991.pdf

In short, the QorIQ Qonverge is a series of base station-on-chips for the wireless infrastructure service provider market.