People continue to say that Intel has lost its way, and maybe it has in hardware, but for a long time they have had the best numerical computing software teams

People continue to say that Intel has lost its way, and maybe it has in hardware, but for a long time they have had the best numerical computing software teams outside of NVIDIA. You can look at mkl, their recent updates to numpy, etc. This is totally orthogonal to whether they are good actors in open source, to be clear.