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bit_user Meanwhile, AMD has been ramping up its open source activity, especially over the past 5 years or so. Even Nvidia has gotten (more) in the game, after they finally decided to develop open source device drivers for their GPUs. I think Intel got this one wrong. I understand cuts have to be made, but a strategic shift away from open source is bad strategy. Open source provides a better vehicle for collaboration with their customers (particularly the big ones). Reply
thestryker To me this is the other side of the marketing purge coin. These parts of the company don't directly generate revenue, but they put you in a position to. Intel's marketing department was behind an awful lot of design work coordination. That whole initiative is part of why we didn't see AMD get a better foothold on laptop when they had the clear advantage. On the software side all sorts of things ended up getting upstreamed. For decades people got Intel NICs because they were going to just work on most OS. Clear was a great platform for the Intel engineers to experiment that ended up having broader implications. Now it almost seems like they're headed down the nvidia route of sort of open source which would be a shame. While these things seem like obvious places to cut headcount it could have very bad long term consequences if they go too far and/or don't have a plan to address it down the road some. Reply
Dav_Daddy thestryker said: To me this is the other side of the marketing purge coin. These parts of the company don't directly generate revenue, but they put you in a position to. Intel's marketing department was behind an awful lot of design work coordination. That whole initiative is part of why we didn't see AMD get a better foothold on laptop when they had the clear advantage. On the software side all sorts of things ended up getting upstreamed. For decades people got Intel NICs because they were going to just work on most OS. Clear was a great platform for the Intel engineers to experiment that ended up having broader implications. Now it almost seems like they're headed down the nvidia route of sort of open source which would be a shame. While these things seem like obvious places to cut headcount it could have very bad long term consequences if they go too far and/or don't have a plan to address it down the road some. You're right. This could potentially hit them down the road in the place that would really hurt. In the server space. I won't pretend to know the details of these projects because I don't believe I've ever interacted with them. However in general this strikes me as a really bad idea. Reply
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