[Jason90]

The i.mx7/8 hasn't been cancelled as was thought previously and is slated to come out later this year,however freescale seems to be one of the most secretive of companies,whether or not we will actually see ereaders with said cpu i'm not sure,but seeing as almost all ereader's use freescale cpu's it seems likely they will transition to the new ones at some point.

The i.mx7 uses 2 cortex A7's running at 1.5 ghz and they are targeted at the ereader market (or were according to their 2013 presentation) we currently have android based ereaders running dual core i.mx 6 cpu's which are cortex A9 at 1/1.2 ghz,the A7 is actually slower than the A9 but makes up for it in the higher clock speed.

So i would of thought at 28nm plus the transition to a more energy efficient architecture would result in some healthy battery gains and perhaps a slight performance boost.

I would also expect a new eink display sometime next year as eink carta is getting pretty old,they must be working on a next gen display tech...