[Coco] [Color Computer] Re:Offtopic - Zeta

[James Diffendaffer]

> I do wonder how much longer the base 68K line will remain a viable 
> product. I expect the 683xx series of microcontrollers to remain in 
> productin for a while longer. They at least  have a niche market in 
> embedded controller operation.

I think the 683xx line is mostly around to support legacy products by 
some large manufacturers.  I really don't see much advantage to using 
them in any new designs.  The Colfire chips are faster, cheap, built on 
smaller die processes and Freescale seems to have more plans for that 
product line than any other.
They even have plans to introduce stand alone microprocessors based on 
the higher end cores.  Something Motorola had once said they wouldn't 
do.
Here's the current roadmap of products.  It's mostly Coldfire related.  
There are a couple more PowerPC chips planned than are shown here.
http://www.freescale.com/files/archives/doc/roadmap/COLDFIRERD.pdf





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