Question

PowerPC is an example for ____

(a) General Purpose Processor

(b) Digital Signal Processor

(c) Application Specific Integrated Circuit

(d) Field Programmable Gate Array

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Answer 1

Right option is (a) General Purpose Processor

To explain I would say: PowerPC is a general purpose processor. It is generally programmed using standard C or C++. It provides different types of addressing modes, floating point and integration computation, large memory, and on and off chip cache memory.