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Re:Arm wants to charge dramatically more for chip licenses by abeyer on Friday March 24, 2023 @04:39PM (#35295115)
Is there any actual POWER core ip out there that people can build on or experiment with? Yes, the ISA itself is open, but last I looked that was it. I think RV's availability of implemented cores (even if they aren't the most cutting edge or high performance) is helping it build some momentum. Whether that's actually "ARM-killer" momentum remains to be seen, and might well not be... but I don't think I'll write them off quite yet, just based on IBM's long history of failures to position and market POWER well.
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Re:Arm wants to charge dramatically more for chip licenses by rektide on Friday March 24, 2023 @05:11PM (#35295578)
Microwatt is the only one I know of. Built as a tiny fgpa core.

https://github.com/antonblanchard/microwatt

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Re:Arm wants to charge dramatically more for chip licenses by an-unknown on Friday March 24, 2023 @05:13PM (#35295620)
Yes, there are open core IPs for POWER:

- https://github.com/OpenPOWERFoundation/a2i

- https://github.com/OpenPOWERFoundation/a2o

- https://github.com/antonblanchard/microwatt

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Re:Arm wants to charge dramatically more for chip licenses by abeyer on Friday March 24, 2023 @06:23PM (#35296502)
ah, interesting, will need to check those out
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