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Phoronix: Additional Intel Linux Drivers Left Orphaned & Maintainers Let Go
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this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2025
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I need to ask; why is Intel letting these people go, apparently shutting down Linux support?
Intel is really struggling right now.
They haven't been able to compete in the CPU market for quite a while and their GPUs are also not really taking off.
As a result, they have to let people go and outsource more and more of their manufacturing to TSMC, which only deepens the hole they have dug for themselves.
They are on their sixth consecutive quarterly net loss and things are only getting worse if they don't have a new architecture (that can compete) ready soon.
Them shutting down their Linux support is just the result of years and years of mismanagement at Intel.
Arc Battlemage was great, albeit late. Not cutting the big die and sticking with it one more generation, they would have been golden.
Falcon shores seems like a management disaster, yeah...
On the CPU side, they still sell a ton of laptop CPUs, and some efforts like the small-core server CPUs are competitive.
Intel was not toast, they just need to stop the corporate dysfunction and stick with some efforts. But it seems they can't even manage that.