SL Power Electronics Blog OCP Global Summit 2024: Shifts from Open, Standardized Hardware?

Since founded by Facebook (now Meta) in 2011, the Open Compute Project (OCP) has been at the forefront of developing open standards for both enterprise and data center applications. It is backed by other hyperscale and enterprise entities such as Google, Microsoft, Dell and HPE. Traditionally, the OCP Summit has been highly influenced by Meta's latest developments and how it is driving the industry. As OCP evolves, new standards and different approaches have been proposed as alternatives or additions, such as the Open19 19-inch rack solution supported by LinkedIn a few years ago. This year, the Summit saw some new trends in standards and form factors.