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Re:Assessing IBM's POWER8, Part 1: A Low Level Look at Littl... by edwintorok on Friday July 22, 2016 @03:16AM (#12142190)
Yes, that is why for the Talos workstation Power8 was chosen: https://www.raptorengineering.com/TALOS/prerelease.php https://www.raptorengineering.com/TALOS/prerelease_specs.php

"POWER is the only open, owner-controllable architecture that is competitive in performance."

If you are interested in using anything other than Intel ME/AMD PSP "backdoored" desktop, please register your interest, they will only build Talos if enough people want to order it.

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Re:Assessing IBM's POWER8, Part 1: A Low Level Look at Littl... by creshal on Friday July 22, 2016 @07:36AM (#12142946)
I would be interested, but even their minimal configuration is overkill for me. If there's a 50-70W quadcore option, sign me up.
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