> Interesting seeing them make a point of mentioning the continuing development of PPCs.

There's some comment on this there:

"It's all about having to respond to this open standard world by adding ARM to our existing highly successful Power Architecture. [...] We're focusing on continuing to invest in both pillars for networking within Freescale, continue to evolve the Power Architecture where we have a very strong momentum [...] alongside adding the ARM 64-bit architecture portfolio alongside it."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqKd1ikZRIk (2:42 to 3:17)