* It has a 25-year software ecosystem, with RHEL, Fedora, Debian
and more.
+* Amongst many other features
+ it has Condition Registers which can be used by Branches, greatly
+ reducing pressure on the main register files.
* IBM's extensive 20+ years of patents is available, royalty-free,
to protect implementors as long as they are also members of the
OpenPOWER Foundation
* IBM designed and maintained the Power ISA as a Supercomputing
- class ISA from its inception.
+ class ISA from its inception over 25 years ago.
* Coherent distributed memory access is possible through OpenCAPI
* Extensions to the Power ISA may be submitted through an External
RFC Process that does not require membership of OPF.