[$] OpenPOWER opens further
In what was to prove something of a theme throughout the morning, Hugh
Blemings said that he had been feeling a bit like a kid waiting for
Christmas recently, but that the day when the presents can be unwrapped had
finally arrived. He is the executive
director of the OpenPOWER
Foundation and was kicking off the keynotes for the second day of the
2019
OpenPOWER Summit North America; the keynotes would reveal the "most
significant and impressive announcements" in the history of the project, he
said. Multiple presentations outlined a major change in the openness of
the OpenPOWER instruction set architecture (ISA), along with various
related hardware and software pieces; in short, OpenPOWER can be used by
compliant products without paying royalties and with a grant of the patents
that IBM holds on it. In addition, the foundation will be moving under the
aegis of the Linux Foundation.