[daxorid]

Some of us believe that the open platform is worth the expense.

ME, and the absolute refusal of Intel to allow its own customers to disable it, is very scary to the tinfoil hat crowd.

Unfortunately, Raptor Engineering is still early in development of their POWER8 board, and even that may ultimately turn out to be vaporware.

[spitfire]

If they haven't released by now, they probably won't. Sad but true, technology has a shelf life.

If they wait another 6 months it simply won't be economical to release it ever.