Freescale Semiconductor Inc. (Austin, Texas) claims to have pulled off just such a heterogenous mix for embedded designs with its long-rumored, but finally here, i.MX 7 series of application processors. "Freescale is taking a dual strategy, improving their 32-bit line with this announcement, which is smart, because most embedded applications do not need 64-bit processing. However, they are also planning to introduce full 64-bit processors, probably in their i.MX 8 processors, which may come out later this year."