In February 1999, the μClinux project's Linux kernel was ported to two ColdFire processors (MCF5206 and MCF5307).

[8] ColdFire based products have even been deployed to the International Space Station as an electronic nose project.

[9][10] There are five generations or versions of the ColdFire available from Freescale: There is also the Fido 1100, a microcontroller launched in 2007 aimed at predictable embedded control systems such as Industrial Ethernet applications using the 68k/CPU32 instruction set.

[14][15] In September 2007, Freescale launched the 32-bit Flexis microcontroller family with a ColdFire CPU core.

[16] In June 2010, Freescale announced the ColdFire+ line, which is a ColdFire V1 core using a 90 nm TFS technology.