On 09/05/2017 03:00 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:

> so it looks as it that legitimately owner-controlled computer
> project
> based on the POWER processor has died.
>
> Anyone know better? Is is still continuing in some form?
>
That was TALOS 1 (POWER8), the new hotness is TALOS 2 (POWER9).

They are waiting for IBM to release POWER9 CPU's to the public, so it is
a real ready to ship product not a crowd-funding campaign - and by my
cynical standards it is simply incredible.
As a reminder it is $2.1K for the board and CPU, so quite affordable by
server hardware pricing standards (you would pay more for less if you
went with the closed source x86 for that many threads) and one can buy
it with bitcoin too which is pretty sick.

Raptor is a great company that has also made the libre firmware and
OpenBMC port for various pre-PSP AMD x86 motherboards such as the
KGPE-D16 and KCMA-D8 both of which work nicely, they have a proven track
record and are a member of IBM's OpenPOWER foundation.