Freescale Semiconductor is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. The company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing or sales operations in more than 30 countries.

Their unparalleled portfolio of power management solutions, microprocessors, microcontrollers, sensors, radio frequency semiconductors, analog and mixed signal circuits and software technologies are embedded in products used around the world.

The MPC852T is an "ethernet-only" member of the MPC866 Family. Like the MPC866, the MPC852T is a 0.18 micron version of the PowerQUICC Family and can operate up to a maximum of 100 MHz on the MPC8xx Core with a maximum of 66 MHz external bus. The MPC852T has a 1.8 V core and has a 3.3 V I/O operation with 5 V TTL compatibility. The MPC852T Integrated Communications Controller is a versatile one-chip integrated microprocessor and peripheral combination that can be used in a variety of controller applications. The MPC852T is ideal for ethernet to ethernet applications such as line card.

The MPC852T is a Power Architecture-based derivative of Freescale Semiconductor's Quad Integrated Communications Controller (PowerQUICC). The CPU on the MPC852T is the MPC8xx core, a 32-bit microprocessor built on Power Architecture technology, incorporating memory management units (MMUs) and instruction and data caches.