Power.org

Power.org is an organization whose purpose is to develop, enable and promote Power Architecture technology. The objective is to establish open standards, guidelines, best practices and certifications regarding Power Architecture, as well as drive adoption of the platform.

Power.org was founded in 2004 by IBM, and 15 other companies joined as members the day the site http://power.org was created. Freescale (later bought by NXP Semiconductors) joined in 2006 as a founding member and was given similar status as IBM. Power.org have over 40 paying members, corporations, governmental and educational institutions, and over 10.000 developers.

Milestones

Organization

Power.org consists of a Board of Directors which consists of founding members and others. Several committees and subcommittees govern and manage the organization's goals, projects and responsibilities. Members have no veto rights in the decision processes of what defines the Power Architecture. This is IBM's and Freescale's responsibility.

Membership

Power.org has a tiered membership model, with four levels: Founder, Sponsor, Participant, Associate and Developer. Developer membership is free for anyone.

Members

Not a complete list:[5]

See also

External links

References

  1. ↑ http://www.power.org/resources/devcorner/roadmap
  2. ↑ http://www.power.org/devcon/07
  3. ↑ http://www.ibtimes.com/prnews/20081202/power-org-releases-common-debug-application-programming-interface-specification.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.eetimes.com/news/design/rss/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212300381
  5. 1 2 3 4 http://www.power.org/about/corpmembers/
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