POWER and PowerPC are two somewhat related, but independent ISAs. Both are available for licensing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPOWER_Foundation https://e

POWER and PowerPC are two somewhat related, but independent ISAs. Both are available for licensing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPOWER_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPOWER_Foundation This is going to be the latest refinement of the POWER ISA, replacing the current POWER8 used by IBM, and licensed by some Chinese company for not yet released products. FreeScale/NXP are licensing PowerPC.