Comments on: Big Blue Open Sources Power Chip Instruction Set https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2019/08/21/big-blue-open-sources-power-chip-instruction-set/ All about electronics and circuit design Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2019/08/21/big-blue-open-sources-power-chip-instruction-set/comment-page-1/#comment-1654599 Wed, 09 Oct 2019 18:27:16 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=183675#comment-1654599 https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/events/openpower-summit-eu-2019/

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2019/08/21/big-blue-open-sources-power-chip-instruction-set/comment-page-1/#comment-1654598 Wed, 09 Oct 2019 18:26:52 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=183675#comment-1654598 OpenPOWER Foundation Trumpets Fully Open 64-bit Microwatt POWER Core
https://www.hackster.io/news/openpower-foundation-trumpets-fully-open-64-bit-microwatt-power-core-f54c5d5ad295

OpenPOWER Foundation executive director Hugh Blemings has officially launched the Microwatt soft-core processor, a 64-bit POWER design written in the VHDL hardware description language and released under a permissive licence — a first for the organisation and the POWER instruction set architecture.

Following the growing success of free and open source silicon efforts, in particular RISC-V, OpenPOWER made the move to release the POWER architecture — originally created by the Apple, IBM, and Motorola triumvirate known as AIM — under a permissive licence, finally living up to the “open” part of OpenPOWER.

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2019/08/21/big-blue-open-sources-power-chip-instruction-set/comment-page-1/#comment-1649711 Fri, 30 Aug 2019 20:16:54 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=183675#comment-1649711 IBM’s Power-ful open source gift: China wins big, and these are the losers
https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibms-power-ful-open-source-gift-big-winner-is-china-losers-include-you-know-who/

It’s a heck of an announcement by Big Blue, and this is a heck of a list

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2019/08/21/big-blue-open-sources-power-chip-instruction-set/comment-page-1/#comment-1648806 Wed, 21 Aug 2019 19:05:57 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=183675#comment-1648806 https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/20/ibm_intel_hot_chips/

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2019/08/21/big-blue-open-sources-power-chip-instruction-set/comment-page-1/#comment-1648772 Wed, 21 Aug 2019 10:07:31 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=183675#comment-1648772 https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/20/ibm-is-moving-openpower-foundation-to-the-linux-foundation/

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