Raptor Talos II Lite, will be around POWER9 low-end Sforza.

[rigoletto@]

Well, Rapor will bring a more affordable product built around the low-end Sforza, which they will reveal at the OpenPOWER Summit in October:

IBM POWER9 CPU (4-Core) - CP9M01

• 4 cores per package
  • 3.2GHz base / 3.8GHz turbo (WoF)
  • 90W TDP
  • All Core Turbo capable
  • 32KB L1 data cache + 32KB L1 instruction cache / core
  • 512KB unpaired L2 cache / core
  • 10MB unpaired L3 cache / core
• 14nm FinFET process
• SMT4 capable
• POWER IOMMU
• Hardware virtualization extensions
• Additional Sforza CPU options are planned for Q3 2018

Based on information I gathered around, their products are shipped with full schematics, the TDP numbers are the maximum ( apparently AMD/Intel inform the average one ), and they require no binary blobs. They also have a WIKI, where the processor datasheet can be downloaded, and more documentation in HERE.

IBM Sforza DOCUMENTATION.

This POWER9 stuff are becoming more and more interesting, we just need more support at the OS ( aka FreeBSD ) side ( do I already said I hate green mother boards? ); however I heard the POWER9 support is already on a not that bad state.

 

[ahriman]

More products for me to drool over ...