Power PC software with Intel Chips

Hi,
I am looking at purchasing the Adobe Creative package, and it says the required hardware is a G4 or G5 PowerPC processor. That works with my iBook, but I don't want the software to be useless when I get a new computer. Is the older software compatible with new chips? I seem to remember reading that it is, but I wanted to make sure.
Thanks

Just to add...
The software will not require more memory but rather the software needed to run the PPC program (Rosetta) will - and it will run slower than on a top of the line PPC machine ...especially when tasking it.
You may want to check but I'm fairly certain that if you bought the PPC Suite you would be able to upgrade to the Intel version when it is released.

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