Update:

> Statement on PowerPi by the Libre-SOC project lead and
> Technical Director of RED Semiconductor: […]
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2023/03/msg00014.html
> I'm not really sure what to make of this.

POWERπ got mentioned as ongoing project at EuroBSDCon 2023 by the Chair of the OpenPOWER Foundation's Technical Steering Committee:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj4Q-m_WEh0 (4:25 and 32:03)

- open source (whatever that means)
- dual-core
- 500 EUR target price (up from 150 USD, see comment #213)

More interesting points from this presentation:
- Raptor will announce Power10-based hardware very soon (at 3:52 and 41:30)
- Microsoft will manufacture hardware based on Power ISA v3.1 / Power10 (Huh?)
- plan for workstations for 1000…1500 EUR target price (at 24:32 and 31:26)
- something called "PowerSBC" (which is apparently different from POWERπ)
- Single Board Computers (same as above?) in 2024/2025 (at 31:34)

(There're also many pure nonsense claims in this talk like the e6500-based PowerPC notebook project being Power ISA v3.1 (instead of v2.06), or IBM having been the only manufacturer of Power-based CPUs in the past, or POWER being from the 1960s, or going PPC64LE (2013/2014) and making the ISA royalty-free (2019/2020) happening at the same time, or new compliancy subsets starting with ISA v3.1 (instead of v3.0C), or OpenPOWER microcontroller systems currently being available.)