No matter how important or well intentioned, technology industry press releases are seldom entirely free of hyperbole. So in parsing any announcement, it’s good to keep an eye on 1) what is being done; 2) who is involved; and 3) how and why the world will be different if they succeed. In the case of the OpenPower Consortium recently announced by IBM, Google, Mellanox, Nvidia and Tyan, the effort is grounded in IBM’s decision to make its Power microprocessor architecture and related technologies fully available to partners and customers.
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IBM, Google, Nvidia and Pals Launch OpenPower
Posted by: Charles King August 19, 2013 05:00 AMNo matter how important or well intentioned, technology industry press releases are seldom entirely free of hyperbole. So in parsing any announcement, it’s good to keep an eye on 1) what is being done; 2) who is involved; and 3) how and why the world will be different if they succeed. In the case of the OpenPower Consortium recently announced by IBM, Google, Mellanox, Nvidia and Tyan, the effort is grounded in IBM’s decision to make its Power microprocessor architecture and related technologies fully available to partners and customers.