Facebook hands motherboard designs to Open Compute Project

James Dohnert
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Group Hug motherboard lets users switch between SOC vendors

SANTA CLARA: Facebook has agreed to add its designs for a new common slot architecture specification for datacentre motherboards into the Open Compute Platform (OCP) initiative. The "Group Hug" ...

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