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Some Intel Linux Driver Maintainers Have Left The Company
With the recent Intel layoffs and early retirement / buyout packages, I have been curious to see what impact it will have on the open-source/Linux software engineers at the company
I've heard from several Intel Linux engineers responsible from different oneAPI software components to device drivers that departed the company at the end of the month. Besides from those that I've heard from in private, one of the indicators I've been on the lookout for over the past week has been the Linux kernel MAINTAINERS file being updated to reflect departing Intel engineers. So there's been some impact on the Intel Linux software engineer side from the recent cost-cutting at Intel but it doesn't appear to be too widespread among the OSS/Linux ranks and hopefully won't have any measurable impact on their timely hardware enablement moving forward along with all of the other areas they invest in software like performance optimizations, kernel innovations, other tooling, etc.
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