PowerPC G4 is a designation formerly used by Apple to describe a fourth generation of 32-bit PowerPC microprocessors. Apple has applied this name to various processor models from Freescale, a former part of Motorola. Motorola and Freescale's proper name of this family of processors is PowerPC 74xx.
An 800 MHz Motorola PowerPC 7450 on a Power Mac G4 CPU module
A 1.25 GHz Sample 7445 EVT prototype on an iMac G4 DVT model
Image: MPC7400
Image: IBM 06K5319
PowerPC is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM. PowerPC, as an evolving instruction set, has been named Power ISA since 2006, while the old name lives on as a trademark for some implementations of Power Architecture–based processors.
IBM PowerPC 601 microprocessor
IBM PowerPC 604e 200 MHz
The Freescale XPC855T Service Processor of a Sun Fire V20z