POWER11 on the horizon?

[Borley]

If anything I'm most interested in is IBM returning to its core open source design, so that it has a Power 11 processor that's exactly as open as a Power 8 or Power 9, I'm not going to buy Power CPUs. that they are not IBM because their technology is the best ever for their processors and I don't think that any other company, no matter how good, can reach their level and therefore I don't intend to change companies for these microprocessors. IBM creates it and IBM must produce it or have it produced by one of its direct partners to be the best, this at least is my humble opinion and then obviously it is debatable by anyone.

I've learned in life not to get hung up on vendor brands. Especially in the computing space, it's all about the design and how it's implemented.

[tle]

Another post from Phoronix confirming that POWER11 is likely to be debut in 2025. Let's hope it is actually less binary flop than that of POWER10

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-Power11-KVM-Nested

[power9mm]

For end consumer/home user adoption, it's really the price that kills it... and maybe perhaps a lack of better marketing but I mean just setting one of these up isnt as simple as building a windows gaming machine so IDK...

[power9mm]

If anything I'm most interested in is IBM returning to its core open source design, so that it has a Power 11 processor that's exactly as open as a Power 8 or Power 9, I'm not going to buy Power CPUs. that they are not IBM because their technology is the best ever for their processors and I don't think that any other company, no matter how good, can reach their level and therefore I don't intend to change companies for these microprocessors. IBM creates it and IBM must produce it or have it produced by one of its direct partners to be the best, this at least is my humble opinion and then obviously it is debatable by anyone.

I've learned in life not to get hung up on vendor brands. Especially in the computing space, it's all about the design and how it's implemented.

I think in this case it's mostly reference to IBMs QC with their foundry etc.. in the 90s my dad had produced tooling for motorola (he owned a machine shop), unsure if they were used for manufacturing POWER cpus but what I do know is the workers at motorola had told him and his constituents that when they switched to chinese produced tooling that the american made tooling had been a lot better... for whatever thats worth.

[Borley]

Only two weeks left of Q4 2024. I'm speculating that things have been pushed back and that's why we have not seen any announcements yet. Unless there is some trade show or twitter activity that I've missed.

[ClassicHasClass]

I haven't seen nor heard anything myself.

[MPC7500]

Introducing IBM Power11 processor

With a planned release in 2025, the next generation IBM Power11 system will have innovations in the processor, system, and stack levels to help enterprises propel digital transformation initiatives for their mission-critical infrastructure

IBM Newsroom, November 13, 2024

The longer the S1 is waiting, the more convinced I am that the S1 is a Power11 derivative.