You can run 68K apps now on a faster PPC system with little added costs (G3-400 on a Powermac 7500/8500 will run 68K OS 7.5.x+ apps just fine). Amiga and Atari people spend big bucks on slow PPC and fast 68060 processors because their platform died and they have no other choice (outside of emulation) and even they only buy NEW designs by the handfull.
If motorola got bored they could take the old 68040 design, add 2MB of cache to the die and shrink it with new production methods and probably get a 68040/800Mhz that runs without a heatsink. Thing is developers have moved on and few would buy the new chip.
If motorola got bored they could take the old 68040 design, add 2MB of cache to the die and shrink it with new production methods and probably get a 68040/800Mhz that runs without a heatsink. Thing is developers have moved on and few would buy the new chip.