Motorola did have a great CPU project in the works. I helped work on it in Phoenix during my EMPLANT/FUSION haydays. The CPU was basically a Xilinix on steroids. We could load a CPU core into the chip. There were 68000 and 80586 cores working, but not optimized. It had the ability to byte/word/longword swap on the fly. The project was scrapped, and the IBM partnership went forward making the PPC chips.
