Fifteen years ago, the PowerPC™ architects saw the necessity for an architecture that was scalable and adaptable to a computing landscape that they knew would continue to surprise and amaze even the most forward-thinking among us, an architecture with room to advance not only general-purpose computing but also networking, telecommunication, transportation, image processing, electronic gaming, any field where microprocessors fit—an architecture that would not only drive change but that would evolve with it.
The PowerPC architecture, although best known to the general public for enabling innovations of Apple’s desktop and laptop computers, has become the most pervasive architecture in embedded networking and communications designs. Software and hardware designers have found uses for the architecture that the PowerPC architects could never have expected—which was, after all, exactly what they expected.
