Samsung joins the OpenPOWER Foundation
Samsung Electronics has joined the OpenPOWER Foundation – the development alliance based on IBM's POWER microprocessor architecture.
The OpenPOWER Foundation, announced in August 2013, intends to build advanced server, networking, storage and acceleration technology aimed at delivering more choice, control and flexibility to developers of next generation, hyperscale and cloud data centres.
Through the group, POWER hardware and software is being made available to open development for the first time. This, says the organisation, will greatly expand the ecosystem of innovators on the platform.
The OpenPOWER Foundation is prioritizing development in four technical areas: system software; application software; open server development platforms; and hardware architecture. The current focus is on software development and preliminary hardware design.
