Lpc2000

>> Of course Hitachi and AMD might have some secret licensing deal 
like Motorola is rumoured to have had for some years. <<

It's no secret on Motorola's part! They've been using ARM cores for years in 
the Dragonballs that Palm Pilots used to use. They [Motorola] now have these 
MAC7100 devices which are not at all dissimilar to the Phillips devices. 
(Although they're not keen to promote these devices unless the volumes are 
huge as they want to keep people using their Coldfire devices. "P*ssing in 
the wind" is the phrase that comes to mind! ;-)