OpenPOWER Foundation

OpenPOWER Foundation
Predecessor	OpenPOWER Consortium
Formation	August 6, 2013
Founders	IBM, Google, Mellanox, NVIDIA, Tyan
Purpose	Member companies are enabled to create an open ecosystem, using the Power ISA
Membership	> 350 members
Key people	Artem Ikoev (chair); Mendy Furmanek (president); James Kulina (executive director);
Parent organization	Linux Foundation
Website	openpowerfoundation.org

The OpenPOWER Foundation is a collaboration around Power ISA-based products initiated by IBM and announced as the "OpenPOWER Consortium" on August 6, 2013. IBM's focus is to open up technology surrounding their Power Architecture offerings, such as processor specifications, firmware, and software with a liberal license, and will be using a collaborative development model with their partners.

The goal is to enable the server vendor ecosystem to build their own customized server, networking, and storage hardware for future data centers and cloud computing.

The governing body around the Power ISA instruction set is now the OpenPOWER Foundation: IBM allows its patents to be royalty-free for Compliant implementations. Processors based on IBM's IP can now be fabricated on any foundry and mixed with other hardware products of the integrator's choice.

On August 20, 2019, IBM announced that the OpenPOWER Foundation would become part of the Linux Foundation.

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