I don't know if it was the 68000 but Apple demanded that when they adopted POWER, Motorola could still supply chips. But Motorolas core couldn't be made to run

I don't know if it was the 68000 but Apple demanded that when they adopted POWER, Motorola could still supply chips. But Motorolas core couldn't be made to run POWER. So PowerPC is basically a merge between IBM Power core and Motorola's next generation core.