EE Times - Xilinx enhances FPGAs with embedded PowerPCs

Xilinx chose the PowerPC because the 32-bit CPU is showing up in embedded networking applications more often than its next-closest rival, MIPS. Moreover, Goetting said, Xilinx was worried that MIPS Technologies Inc., which has a relatively small market cap, could one day be the target of an acquisition, an event that could throw the future of the MIPS instruction-set architecture into doubt