The first annual OpenPOWER Foundation summit showcases new #hardware and #cloud services that utilize IBM’s freely licensable #processor technology, which adds developer-friendly changes.
IBM unveiled in August 2013 the POWER8 family of processors, and announced that the POWER architecture would be freely licensable by outside companies to produce processors and hardware based on IBM’s design. The OpenPOWER Foundation, which was established to promote collaborative #development of POWER systems, now has over 100 members (including market leaders such as Google, Canonical, NVIDIA, and TYAN) that are introducing new server and cloud solutions utilizing POWER8 processors.
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