(At the same time, Sony was building and shipping the MIPS-based Playstation however, the second big flood came when MIPS and ARM chips started appearing widely in mobile and settop applications by 2000, and hasn't abated since.) The 68000 series kept on for a bit as the first architecture for the PalmOS (under the ColdFire and Dragonball names), but these days it's largely an embedded systems architecture with a lot of fond memories behind it. The 68K series' heyday ended by 1994, though, when the Apple-IBM-Motorola alliance announced the PowerPC series of chips the Power Macs marked the first mass market invasion of RISC chips into consumer hardware, after years of architectures like SPARC and HP-PA doing the same to the workstation market.
