Ask HN: Why is Open POWER Foundation a wasteland?

Why is the Open POWER Foundation website a desolate post-apocalyptic wasteland compared to riscv.org?

Just ten years ago PowerPC was getting so much love (at least, a little love). What has possessed people who relied on that ecosystem to dump it so wholeheartedly?

5 points | by climate_denier_ 14 hours ago

3 comments

Pet_Ant 8 hours ago
Didn’t POWER end up needing proprietary memory firmware?
https://www.talospace.com/2021/09/its-not-just-omi-thats-tro...
That couldn’t have helped. Otherwise I feel like RISC-V is better if you want to build something new from scratch.
simfree 13 hours ago
IBM spun out their foundries to Global Foundaries (formerly part of AMD) a decade ago, then refused to commit to Global Foundaries next major process upgrades.
Staying on the bleeding edge of silicon requires massive investment, which they weren't willing to make.
https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-01-02-GlobalFoundries-and-IBM-...