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.
Bad management, bad luck, and usual market stuff. They’re going to do anything to cut costs.
Their R&D for new fab work is falling behind competitors (Technically better doesn’t matter if nobody is buying it), they’ve had a bunch of bad CPU releases with hardware failures, and they’ve got next to no market presence with GPUs which are currently making money hand over fist (Mostly for dumb AI reasons, which is going to bite Nvidia hard when the bubble pops, because their new datacenter hardware is hyper tuned for LLMs at the expense of general compute, unlike AMD).
Surely 100% tariffs on chips will boost national production, right?
Which is great for TSMC opening new fabs in the US too lol
USA should just nationalize Intel, if it’s actually as important to national security as they say. Left to their own devices they will self destruct
Considering how the US government is currently burning its agencies to the ground, I’m pretty sure that would be even worse.
Should but the US won’t because that’s a good idea. Instead they will just let the company crash and sell the fabs to AMD creating an effective complete monopoly.
Too much enterprise hardware depends on these for them to go orphaned for very long
Is this really that bad news for Intel Linux support?
Fuck.
Thank god Intel let go of all them middle managers Amirite?
This is really bad. At the very least I hope they open source some stuff, because I suspect a lot of communities that would volunteer to support something so critical.
This is about Linux kernel driver maintainership… It’s all open source.
