Speeds range from 533 MHz up to 1.5 GHz, and the core is designed to be highly configurable and meet the specific needs of embedded applications with features like multi-core operation interface for auxiliary application processing units (APU).
e500 powers the high-performance PowerQUICC III system on a chip (SoC) network processors and they all share a common naming scheme, MPC85xx.
Key improvements in the e500v2 over the e500v1 include: Freescale introduced the e500mc in the QorIQ family of chips in June 2008.
In June 2008 Freescale announced the QorIQ brand, microprocessors based on the e500 family of cores.
Both GCC (before version 9) and LLVM[1] offer support for compiling to this platform, and QEMU provides emulation.