IBM Demonstrates Commitment to Open Hardware Movement
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Wednesday, August 21, 2019
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 21, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM ) announced today at The Linux Foundation Open Source Summit that it will be contributing implementation rights to key technologies to the open community, further building upon IBM's long legacy of open source development.
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- SAN DIEGO, Aug. 21, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM ) announced today at The Linux Foundation Open Source Summit that it will be contributing implementation rights to key technologies to the open community, further building upon IBM's long legacy of open source development.
- IBM is opening the POWER Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), which is critical to how hardware and software work together on POWER.
- "With today's announcement IBM is taking another significant step in driving innovation across the industry through open technology and open source," said IBM's OpenPOWER General Manager Ken King.
- "The Linux Foundation itself has seen rising interest in open hardware communities and working with OpenPOWER Foundation will continue to make the OpenPOWER and open hardware technologies available to a growing, global audience."