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Ask HN: Why is Open POWER Foundation a wasteland?

8 points - last Saturday at 10:49 PM


Why is the Open POWER Foundation website a desolate post-apocalyptic wasteland compared to riscv.org?

Just ten years ago PowerPC was getting so much love (at least, a little love). What has possessed people who relied on that ecosystem to dump it so wholeheartedly?

  • Pet_Ant

    yesterday at 4:32 AM

    Didn’t POWER end up needing proprietary memory firmware?

    https://www.talospace.com/2021/09/its-not-just-omi-thats-tro...

    That couldn’t have helped. Otherwise I feel like RISC-V is better if you want to build something new from scratch.

    • simfree

      yesterday at 12:11 AM

      IBM spun out their foundries to Global Foundaries (formerly part of AMD) a decade ago, then refused to commit to Global Foundaries next major process upgrades.

      Staying on the bleeding edge of silicon requires massive investment, which they weren't willing to make.

      https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-01-02-GlobalFoundries-and-IBM-...

      • last Saturday at 11:14 PM