OpenPOWER Foundation implementation programs bring member organizations together to build commodity hardware, silicon, and infrastructure — shared platforms that the entire POWER ecosystem benefits from equally.
The ESI organizes regulated enterprise buyers, hyperscalers, ODMs, and US silicon fabs around a single fully open, US-manufactured POWER computing platform — designed for organizations that cannot accept a black-box supply chain.
Programs focused on building commodity silicon and platform infrastructure that regulated enterprises and sovereign-compute deployments can rely on — open by design, US-manufactured, auditable end-to-end.
Flagship sovereignty program. Organized around regulated enterprise buyers, hyperscalers, ODMs, and US fabs building a commodity POWER platform with cooperative procurement at cost +10%.
Four open-source POWER ISA processor cores: Microwatt (FPGA soft-core), A2I (4-thread in-order, BlueGene/Q heritage — SmartNIC/DPU/SONiC), A2O (out-of-order server-class), and A2P (32-bit lightweight — already taped out via efabless MPW). Apache 2.0, no licensing fee.
Programs developing certified hardware platforms and compute accelerators — reference designs, validated systems, and inference infrastructure that OEMs and end users can build on.
A community-developed, POWER ISA-compliant processor core designed for integration into SoCs and FPGA platforms — production-ready reference implementation for chip designers.
An open hardware inference accelerator designed for POWER-native deployments — enabling AI workloads at the edge and in the data center without proprietary accelerator lock-in.
An Open Compute Project-spec server platform built on POWER — enabling ODMs to deliver validated, OCP-compliant systems to regulated enterprise and hyperscale buyers.
Programs building the management, service processor, and interconnect layers that complete a sovereign, fully auditable POWER server stack.
An open, auditable baseboard management interface for POWER servers — designed for regulated environments where out-of-band management firmware must be transparent and verifiable.
An open implementation of the POWER Flexible Service Processor — enabling transparent, field-auditable service processor firmware in compliance-sensitive deployments.
An initiative to revive OpenCAPI — the open, coherent accelerator fabric that gives POWER the equivalent of NVLink without the proprietary lock-in. Seeking IP grants from original consortium founders.
Programs are member-driven efforts that pool resources, expertise, and buying power to create infrastructure that benefits every participant — not just the organizations that funded it.
Whether you're a regulated enterprise, a hyperscaler with in-house silicon, an ODM, or a silicon fab — there's a role in the open POWER ecosystem for you.
