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OpenPOWER Foundation
Predecessor
OpenPOWER Consortium
Formation
August 6, 2013; 10 years ago (2013-08-06)
Founders
IBM, Google, Mellanox, NVIDIA, Tyan
Purpose
Member companies are enabled to create an open ecosystem, using the Power ISA
Membership
> 350 members[1]
Key people
Artem Ikoev (chair)[2]
Mendy Furmanek (president)[3]
James Kulina (executive director)[4]
Parent organization
Linux Foundation
Website
openpowerfoundation.org
The OpenPOWER Foundation is a collaboration around Power ISA-based products initiated by IBM and announced as the "OpenPOWER Consortium" on August 6, 2013.[5] IBM's focus is to open up technology surrounding their Power Architecture offerings, such as processor specifications, firmware, and software with a liberal license, and will be using a collaborative development model with their partners.[6][7]
The goal is to enable the server vendor ecosystem to build their own customized server, networking, and storage hardware for future data centers and cloud computing.[8]
The governing body around the Power ISA instruction set is now the OpenPOWER Foundation: IBM allows its patents to be royalty-free
for Compliant implementations.[9] Processors based on IBM's IP can now be fabricated on any foundry and mixed with other hardware products of the integrator's choice.
On August 20, 2019, IBM announced that the OpenPOWER Foundation would become part of the Linux Foundation.[10]
^Russell, John (2 July 2020). "OpenPOWER Reboot – New Director, New Silicon Partners, Leveraging Linux Foundation Connections". HPCwire.
^Halfacree, Gareth. "IBM's OpenPower Foundation opens Power ISA". bit-tech.net.
^Morgan, Timothy Prickett (2020-06-30). "Big Blue Open Sources The Core Inside BlueGene/Q Supercomputers". The Next Platform. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
^Morgan, Timothy Prickett (2020-06-01). "OpenPower Puts Open Source Software Guru In Charge". The Next Platform. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
^Walton, Jarred (August 7, 2013). "IBM Offers POWER Technology for Licensing, Forms OpenPOWER Consortium". AnandTech. Retrieved January 25, 2024.
^at 16:44, Timothy Prickett Morgan 6 Aug 2013. "IBM opens up Power chips, ARM-style, to take on Chipzilla". www.theregister.co.uk.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^Rosamilia, Tom (August 6, 2013). "Open and Collaborative Development is the Future of Cloud Computing". IBM's A Smarter Planet blog. Archived from the original on September 9, 2016. Retrieved August 22, 2016.
^Dignan, Larry. "IBM's OpenPower consortium with Nvidia, Google aims to advance datacenter". ZDNet.
^Final draft of Power ISA EULA
^"OpenPOWER Foundation | The Next Step in the OpenPOWER Foundation Journey".
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