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Are we confusing things? They're both RISC, but P9/P10/etc is based on IBM's own Power microarchitecture (possibly open sourced / open standard), I wasn't awar

Are we confusing things? They're both RISC, but P9/P10/etc is based on IBM's own Power microarchitecture (possibly open sourced / open standard), I wasn't aware it had anything to do with Arm? I could be hopelessly wrong... Or do you mean something different with "POWER"?

mhh__ 4y ago
Owning an IBM Power system is a daydream of many nerds apparently. And power is open in that the ISA is open. Power10 is a bang up to date CPU so the internals are all closed.
rbanffy 4y ago
There are other interesting ISAs that are not arm64. Sadly, the only ones that still could be viable desktop (more like deskside) are either server-grade ARM or IBM's POWER (and none of them makes Mac Minis).