https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII
I just saw this, even if it is pretty old.
They continue the IMB powerPC architecture.
3mdeb develops coreboot for the architecture.
Here is an interesting presentation
OS Installation is complex, but Linux/BSD with support for ppc64 should work.
The used AMD Radeon Pro WX7100 GPU is pretty open, but the boot code contains blobs.
Just as the NVME controller.
This is a competitor to RISC-V, while the latter is in early steps but is high in trend and developing fast.
That’s fair, and you’re not wrong.
That was more of a personal story than an analytical assessment of more open vs closed platforms.
I’d say, though, that the person that doesn’t care about performance AND doesn’t care about price is the rare person, and that the current pricing (which, I’m entirely sure is being driven by having to be in bed with IBM to do this at all) puts it out of the realm of essentially anyone who might be interested that doesn’t have a very compelling reason to need a POWER-based system.
In the video the guy said that it is used a lot in high security contexts.
Imagine a scenario like in this talk where every device is scanned, the entire building is sealed, on springs, in a faraday cage.