You should look into openpower and raptor computing if you haven’t. That ended up being my only real alternative and I ended up learning a lot in the process.

Big Blue Is Still Talking About Future Power Processors, Which Is Good itjungle.com/2026/05/18/big-… #OpenPOWER #IBM #Power12 #PowerPC

#CopyFail works on #ppc64le talospace.com/2026/04/copyfa… #OpenPOWER #POWER9 #Power10 #Power11 #PowerPC

What Can #IBM Do To Make The Future Power S1112 Mini System Compelling? itjungle.com/2026/04/13/what… #OpenPOWER #Power11 #PowerSystems #PowerPC #IBMi

They made OpenPOWER, but Google realized they could make more being part of the ARM cartel. Need someone like an Elon to chuck in a billion. Still think it's possible and technically sound.

#IBM Starts Winding Down #Power10 System Sales itjungle.com/2026/02/09/ibm-… #OpenPOWER #Power11 #PowerSystems #PowerPC

End of support for small #POWER9 effective tomorrow rpgpgm.com/2026/01/end-of-su… #OpenPOWER #IBM #PowerPC

3 December: New committer: Timothy Pearson (src) freebsd.org/news/newsflash/#… #OpenPOWER #IBM #POWER9 #Power10 #Power11 #PPC64le #PowerPC #FreeBSD

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Dept. of ECE and EE (VLSI DT) at K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology jointly organizes a three-day hands-on workshop on "Chip Design: Accelerating AI Hardware with OpenPOWER" from October 07-09, 2025. #ksrct1994 #ksr #ksrei #ElectronicsEngineering #VLSIDesign #ChipDesign

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Samsung Electronics wins #IBM #Power11 foundry deal, boosts 7nm performance biz.chosun.com/en/en-it/2025… #OpenPOWER #PowerPC

#IBM Power Processor, This One Goes to 11 semiengineering.com/ibm-powe… #OpenPOWER #Power11 #PowerPC

IBM did very misleading marketing with OpenPOWER where they open sourced part of the instruction set (ISA) and some outdated core designs, etc. but then continued making closed source CPUs as the only available modern CPUs. They're a bit less closed source, but not at all open.

OpenPOWER is only an instruction set, similar to RISC-V. There are primitive open core designs but the POWER9 CPUs used with the Talos II are closed source CPU designs with an overall closed source SoC. The OS not needing to load closed source firmware doesn't make the CPU open.

last bit of ibm posting, many also don't know that the POWER9 ISA is open-source and donated to OpenPower, bit of a shame it didn't win out against risc-v Raptor Computing does desktop & server builds w/ performance that rivals modern x86 machines. They've gotten pricey though

#IBM #Power11 CPU Brings 2.5D Stacking On Enhanced 7nm Node From Samsung, Higher Clocks, Memory Uplifts wccftech.com/ibm-power11-cpu… #OpenPOWER #PowerPC #HotChips #HotChips2025

#Debian 13 Trixie talospace.com/2025/08/debian… #OpenPOWER #IBM #POWER9 #PPC64le #PPC64 #PowerPC

Price Cut On Power S1012 Mini Since Power S1112 Ain’t Coming Until 2026 itjungle.com/2025/08/11/pric… #OpenPOWER #IBM #Power10 #Power11 #PowerPC #PowerSystems

#OpenPOWER #IBM #POWER9 #PPC64le #PPC64 #PowerPC