> The Freescale Roadmap shown in that first document is not encouraging
> for future PPC development.

Scanning NXP FTF 2016 documents for Power Architecture relevant news reveals:

1. mention of e6500-based B5T10 SoC:
https://community.nxp.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadBody/331519-102-1-267267/DES-N1841%20Porting%20Software%20from%20Power%20Architecture%20to%20ARM.pdf (page 7/8)

Also mentioned there (B5T10/B5TXX):
https://il.linkedin.com/in/nir-baruch-30b4421a

Unfortunately, it has been cancelled according to this:
https://il.linkedin.com/in/shai-tzur-8a3772111

2. Power-based QorIQ roadmap vs. ARM-based QorIQ roadmap:
https://community.nxp.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadBody/331653-102-1-267403/NET-N1863%20What%27s%20Next%20for%20QorIQ%20-%20Portfolio%20and%20Roadmap.pdf (page 11/12, page 13/14)
https://community.nxp.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadBody/331747-102-1-267497/FTF-NET-N1863%20What%27s%20Next%20for%20QorIQ%20-%20Portfolio%20and%20Roadmap.pdf (page 11/12, page 13/14)
https://community.nxp.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadBody/333451-102-1-270712/EUF-NET-T2471.pdf (page 8/9, page 9/10)

ARM-based roadmap contains next-gen SoC while Power-based roadmap doesn't. From this can be concluded that from NXP there will not only be no successor to the e6500/e6501 core (which was already evident before) but also no new SoC based on e6500/e6501 core.

As recently as 2 months ago, NXP's QorIQ roadmap still contained future LT1/LS2/LS3 Power Architecture SoCs for 1st half of 2018:

https://community.nxp.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadBody/330251-102-2-263914/EUF-DES-T1741%20Scalable%20Multicore%20QorIQ%20Layerscape%20Processors%20Based%20on%2064-bit%20Software%20Environment%20for%20Enterprise,%20Home%20and%20Industrial%20Applications.pdf (page 8/9)
https://community.nxp.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadBody/330317-102-1-263920/EUF-NET-T1744%20Powerful%20QorIQ%20Multicore%20Processors%20for%20the%20New%20Virtualized%20Network.pdf (page 8)

Strangely, there're Freescale/NXP documents claiming the existence of a T2040:

http://www.nxp.com/files/FTF_2015/FTF-2015-QorIQ-LS-Slides.pdf (June 2015, page 7/8)
https://community.nxp.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadBody/330315-102-1-263918/EUF-NET-T1742%20An%20Overview%20on%20QorIQ%20Trust%20Features%20for%20Securing%20Embedded%20Systems.pdf (March 2016, page 11/12)
https://community.nxp.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadBody/330317-102-1-263920/EUF-NET-T1744%20Powerful%20QorIQ%20Multicore%20Processors%20for%20the%20New%20Virtualized%20Network.pdf (March 2016, page 8)


Edit: added more links

[ Edited by Andreas_Wolf 30.11.2016 - 23:08 ]