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There are two primary versions of the POWER ISA that are of interest to [[PowerNV|PowerNV]] platforms:
 
There are two primary versions of the POWER ISA that are of interest to [[PowerNV|PowerNV]] platforms:
 
* [[Version 2.07]] ([[POWER8|POWER8]] / [[POWER8E|POWER8E]])
 
* [[Version 2.07]] ([[POWER8|POWER8]] / [[POWER8E|POWER8E]])
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Revision as of 14:50, 18 December 2017

The POWER ISA is the specification for how POWER conformant processors are to behave. It dictates the machine instructions available, and exactly how they are to process given data.

There are two primary versions of the POWER ISA that are of interest to PowerNV platforms: