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Possibility of A Purism POWER9 or RISC-V System Within Near Future?

I’d sell a kidney to buy a POWER9 or RISC-V laptop if Purism were to produce one. Maybe partner with the Raptor engineers for a POWER based laptop? Even if it needed recharging every 15 minutes and were the size and weight of a 90’s era Thinkpad, I’d buy one since it’d be blobless except for the potentially GPU, and the ssd firmware… A man can dream…

Possibility of A Purism POWER9 or RISC-V System Within Near Future?

Indeed, we are considering both, but from my point of view I do not see a Power9 laptop. The Power9 has been around (and the whole Power architecture) has been around for a very ling time now and IBM’s policy of allowing third party use of the architecture has always been “challenging”. With Power you are basically 100% dependent on IBM and their good will. RISC-V on the other hand is completely open, anyone can pick it up and crank out chips using the ISA and/or based on the freely available de…