Raptor Computing Systems News Today

Raptor Computing Systems as the company behind the open-source friendly, POWER-based Talos II server and Blackbird microATX desktop has continued leveraging POWER9 given the binary blobs and challenging state around POWER10

Just as IBM was posting 'future' processor compiler patches in 2019 for what ended up being early POWER10 enablement, they are once again repeating their same compiler enablement technique with sending out 'PowerPC future' patches for what is likely to be POWER11.

Compared to server and workstation stuff, the price isn’t that outrageous. I’d really like to see something based on the A2O processor. That looks to be more inline with AMD’s and Intel’s consumer stuff. 2021-03-01 6:56 pm An owner-controlled, CPU-based secure boot mode also is available at any time. When secure boot is properly configured, and if the mainboard is located in a physically secure environment (e.g., a secure computing room or locked desktop case), you can be assured t...