As part of the move, it was also announced that administration of the OpenPOWER Foundation will now be handled by the Linux Foundation. ![]() In August 2019, IBM announced it would be open-sourcing the Power ISA. In the beginning, they implemented the POWER instruction set architecture (ISA), which evolved into PowerPC and later into Power ISA. The Power family of processors were originally developed in the late 1980s and still remain under active development. They have also been used in data storage devices and workstations by IBM and by other server manufacturers like Bull and Hitachi. These processors have been used by IBM in their RS/6000, AS/400, pSeries, iSeries, System p, System i and Power Systems line of servers and supercomputers. The name "POWER" was originally presented as an acronym for "Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC". IBM Power (originally POWER prior to Power10) is a line of microprocessors designed and sold by IBM for servers and supercomputers.
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