[mbarbar]

>And if simple humanpower really was the reason IBM took shortcuts

Is this referring to the closed blobs on Power10? Is there anywhere to read more?

And is there any indication Power11 won't suffer the same? Someday POWER9 won't cut it for performance...

[monocasa]

The blobs on POWER10 as I remember were firmware for the memory sticks themselves since it used OMI to talk to the DIMMs, and IBM had to get third party OMI<->DDRX controllers. I see why they could have reason to believe that situation could change.

[octoberfranklin]

This has been echoing around the internet the past few days, but all the echoes lead back to this one comment:

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoron...

So really it's just one guy on phoronix who made that claim. Probably just wishful thinking. But if it is true, everybody with first-hand knowledge of it would be under NDA. So we'll probably never know.