I bet this is something that some people thought would never happen; ARM breaking into PPC stronghold. Personally, I was sure it would happen sooner or later, but didn't think it would happen this soon, my guess was that it would have to take some ARMv8 CPU's for them to do this, but it seems they are going for the *low-end* now already (undoubtly to be followed by high end with the new generations of ARM CPU's to come). PPC is dead for the desktop market since 2007, and now a process has started to corner it in its new domains. ARM won't reach the high-end segments in these markets until the next generation of CPU's of course, but I am convinced this marks the beginning of a new way of reasoning over at Freescale, the start of a process towards a new era. Freescale isn't immune to costs, and why keep developing two architectures, costing twice as much, if you could manage all your needs with just one?

[ Edited by takemehomegrandma 20.06.2012 - 12:03 ]