PowerPC is big endian, but it seems like the world has been standardizing/converging on little endian for a while now. It's not just Intel and AMD, it's also al

PowerPC is big endian, but it seems like the world has been standardizing/converging on little endian for a while now. It's not just Intel and AMD, it's also all ARM CPUs and RISC-V. To me, this seems a bit similar to the 8-bit byte. We take that for granted nowadays, of course memory is divided into bytes, but it wasn't always so. There used to be machines with memory that was addressable only in 36-bit or 40-bit words. There also used to be machines that uses one's complement to encode negative integers, before everything became two's complement. I hope that eventually, all CPUs are little endian. It's easier to interoperate without these arbitrary distinctions.