PowerPC is still around too, but their problem is that it's either very high-performance (ppc64le / IBM POWER9 & co.) or efficient embedded but also outdated if

PowerPC is still around too, but their problem is that it's either very high-performance (ppc64le / IBM POWER9 & co.) or efficient embedded but also outdated if not straight up dead (powerpc & ppc64 / NXP e-series & IBM 6xx) But then again, Intel's Atom came from rifling through the design archive, and look at what's in Lakefield now... Also — NXP already "cross-platform'ed" their QorIQ / Layerscape stuff from PowerPC to ARM, pretty sure if they don't like the license fees they could go back. (But that'd probably piss off their customers to no end. They'd rather use it in negotiating a cheaper ARM license I suppose.)