Zephyr started out as a WindRiver acquisition. Then Intel bought WindRiver. Then Intel sold it off. TLDR: Intel had a foothold in embedded/realtime operating s

Zephyr started out as a WindRiver acquisition. Then Intel bought WindRiver. Then Intel sold it off. TLDR: Intel had a foothold in embedded/realtime operating systems and let it go. Wanna talk about XScale? Intel had an ARM license and then decided, out of the blue, to sell the product line off. TLDR: Intel had a foothold in low-power ARM platforms and let it go. I never went near an Edison board so I don't even address that one. And now they're doing RISC-V. Don't go near it. So, your question is "what is the root cause of Intel not getting a foothold in (em)bedded"? The answer is Intel itself. Yes, I know they contribute to LF and whatnot. The point is that staking your embedded development pipeline on Intel itself is something I would never do (again). And I worked with Zephyr post-Intel, it wasn't a great system. I hope it's improved since then.