> Inevitable...

I like what's also written in the article:

"The architecture will sport ARM, Power and accelerator cores [...]. [...] Freescale aims to differentiate itself by offering a menu of both general purpose ARM and Power cores along with a new set of packet-processing accelerators [...]. [...] The company must create a software environment that straddles both the big endian Power and little endian ARM architectures. [...] ARM will not replace Power cores for Freescale, at least in the foreseeable future. The company said it has long-term plans to continue designing and supporting Power cores. [...] Power-based chips will provide higher-end performance than the ARM cores are likely to reach in the near term [...]. “You will see the Power architecture for a long time--it will co-exist for a decade-plus,” he said. The company has made no change in the resources it puts behind Power cores, and “we are still going to refine existing Power cores [because] we see Power has a strong base in this sector,” he added. [...] In the short term, Freescale has a deep and broad investment in Power."

And from the Freescale press release:

"The Layerscape architecture is the foundation of a broad array of forthcoming QorIQ multicore processors, [...] leveraging Power Architecture and ARM technologies as appropriate. [...] Future QorIQ processors based on the Layerscape architecture will leverage Power Architecture technology. Freescale continues to enhance and invest in its industry-leading Power Architecture e6500 core, which will be among the highest-performance cores featured in the new portfolio."
http://media.freescale.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=196520&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1706486

And from the FTF interview:

"Power Architecture continues to be a very significant aspect of our IP, of our offering [...]."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD8FYGIZ2Nw

So regarding the QorIQ product line, Power Architecture stays in and will be further developed, and ARM will be added. Nice :-)