Talk:PowerPC e700

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A successor to the 7450 has been in development since before the 7450 was released. I respect the notability tag here… should there be one article for all Freescale's canceled high-end cores? Does anyone know of a history page summarizing them? I'd suppose someone's done the footwork already, at least at a blog or forum. Potatoswatter (talk) 02:49, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

The successor to 7450 was the 7445/7455 with 7447/7457 and 7448 when Freescale renamed the core PowerPC e600. The e600 core is the base of the 8641D dual core processor, followed by 8640 and 8610.

The e700 has been on and off development for some time, and probably redisigned along the way. Not much is publicly known. The e700 core or NG-64 is still in development as far as I know, and as far as current roadmaps show. The e700 is not based on e600. -- Henriok (talk) 13:42, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, I meant successor to the 7450 family. Essentially, I guess I'm suggesting a merger with Motorola G5 project. So little information being public, it seems impossible to distinguish the 2000 proposal from the 2004 proposal, or make out the actual degree of development. It would be nice, essentially, to have an article with a roadmap from every year. On the face of it, Freescale has never had the resources to develop a 3 GHz chip, period. Actually naming a chip "next generation" seems disingenuous :vP . Potatoswatter (talk) 14:53, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Rewrite

This article is a bit skinny, and wavers between treating its subject matter as an actual shipping product as opposed to something that has only been announced, which is in fact the case here. Assuming I see no statements against, I will rewrite the article to talk about its subject as an announced, but not-yet-shipping, product. I invite your feedback. Trollaxor (talk) 06:25, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

To reiterate how little is actually known about the e700 core, I refer everyone to a search of Freescale.com for e700, a search of Power.org for e700, and a more general search for PowerPC e700. The dearth of hits is significant, as is the content of those hits that do turn up: the e700 is only mentioned as a future product. Clearly, the e700 is and has been for six years nothing but vapor. Trollaxor (talk) 06:50, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

See my comment above. e700's "heritage" goes back to the 1990s. Please consider merging Motorola G5 project into the rewrite. Potatoswatter (talk) 23:45, 10 May 2010 (UTC)