> Great or Awesome (depending on the price)

Indeed. And the Talos II (which includes Blackbird in this context) has not been a sideshow at the summit apparently:

"Front and center at OpenPOWER Summit Europe is the Talos II developer workstation by Raptor Computing Systems. The first POWER9 developer workstation, the Talos II will enable more developers to begin working on Power technology due to its affordable price point."
https://openpowerfoundation.org/blogs/developer-adoption-summit-europe/

Impressions from the Blackbird announcement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvey2Nsc3oY
https://openpowerfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/06-RaptorCompSys-TimPearson-keynote.pdf
https://openpowerfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_4270.jpg
https://twitter.com/stewartsmith/status/1047757825898897408
https://twitter.com/michellearankin/status/1047758225062461440

Phoronix news article:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Raptor-Blackbird-Announced

[ Edited by Andreas_Wolf 02.11.2018 - 14:52 ]