IBM opens up Power chips, ARM-style, to take on Chipzilla

I&#x27;m not quite sure where the news is here. IBM has been licensing the architecture and cores for years (2007 is mentioned[1]).<p>All I see in the actual announcement[2] is marketing hype (not news) about software that already exists (&quot;open firmware&quot; == U-Boot, &quot;open software&quot; == linux) and hardware that has been licensable for years.<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.or/wiki/Power_Architecture#Licensing" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.or&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Power_Architecture#Licensing</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/41684.wss" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-03.ibm.com&#x2F;press&#x2F;us&#x2F;en&#x2F;pressrelease&#x2F;41684.wss</a>

&quot;With its embedded Power chip business under assault from makers of ARM and x86 processors&quot;<p>I didn&#x27;t know Power chip business still existed.

I would love to see a Rasperry Pi type device with a PPC chip on it, a 603e equivalent for example, or even better, a 7400 series &quot;G4&quot; chip.

Strong feeling of deja vu<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Hardware_Reference_Platform" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Common_Hardware_Reference_Platf...</a>

Chipzilla = Intel.

The final paragraph sounds like an answer to the AMD&#x2F;ARM-driven HSA Foundation.

I assume this is mostly targeted at the very high-end - servers and super-computers and such.