Motorola ready to launch new "V5" Coldfire!!

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The V5 core was supposed to have everything the 4e had in a superscalar package. That means MMU, FPU (though stripped down from 060 standards) and some sort of multi-cpu core support.  Basicly a 4e with multiple pipelines and whatever else they had time to fit in.  

Until the press releases tomorrow and documentation we won't know for sure what is in it.

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Here is the press release:

http://www.motorola.com/mediacenter/news/detail/0,1958,1895_1555_23,00.html

It states that a V5 core at 333MHz should be twice as fast as a 5407 at 220MHz.

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Without any Floating point unit, the CPU will be SLOWER than 68060 or 68040 with built-in floating point unit, because V5 will use the slow floating point emulator.

The V5 has optional FPU and MMU.  Didn't see any announcment about standard parts though.