News from IBM and POWER8 / POWER9 plans

[Carlos]

News about POWER9 (ISSCC 2017)
Details about POWER9 (Google Translator)

Sorry, I don't find any english source.

[msuchanek]

Between power-hungry server chips and crippled Freescale chips the choice is difficult. IBM went little-endian which makes porting software that runs on Intel waaay easier and distros started switching to that but the Freescale chips don't support AltiVec in LE ..

[Carlos]

It's not about IBM, but PowerPC related:

Harnessing the Power of AltiVec in Modern COTS Applications

[Carlos]

OpenPOWER GPU-enabled architecture performance enhancement using the Engineering and Scientific Subroutine Library (ESSL) drop-in acceleration