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Open Developer Community for the POWER Architecture
“The Most Open and High-Performance Processor Architecture and Ecosystem in the Industry”
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The OpenPOWER Foundation is the catalyst for technical collaboration today - fostering complete collaboration, accelerating innovation and driving resiliency across the industry. By combining a 20-year history of hardware and software expertise with a completely open ecosystem, The OpenPOWER Foundation is the only organization equipped with deep institutional knowledge and a straight forward approach to innovation.
Industry ProvenBy open sourcing and developing on the POWER ISA - one of the most sophisticated processor architectures available - the OpenPOWER Foundation is democratizing access and extending the reach of the RISC-based architecture.'
Open for AllWith more than 350 members collaborating regularly, the entire semiconductor industry - from global organizations with deep expertise to individual creators with a new lens - can innovate with choice and build and develop across the full Hardware and Software stack.
Complete EquationOpen development of this scale enables unprecedented customization across applications, operating systems and firmware - driving hundreds of innovations across artificial intelligence, supercomputing, hyperscale and more.
With its open ecosystem approach, active participation from its global membership base and powerful foundation of the POWER ISA, the OpenPOWER Foundation is the premiere organization to facilitate truly effective collaboration and drive meaningful, accessible innovation across the open hardware industry.