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What an end to an era. It's crazy to think she started this journey at 18 and now finished 5 years later. Not many people believed they would be able to make th
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What an end to an era. It's crazy to think she started this journey at 18 and now finished 5 years later. Not many people believed they would be able to make the GPU work in Asahi linux. Kinda curious what her "Onto the next challenge!" link means. Is she working for Intel Xe-HPG next?
- kccqzy 1y agoYes I think so. Her resume says she started working for Intel on open source graphics driver this month.
- monocasa 1y agoGood luck to her. That's one of the pieces of Intel I think will survive its slow motion implosion.
- pjmlp 1y agoHardly, Phoronix has a few reports from Linux driver folks being layed off at Intel.
- monocasa 1y agoEverywhere in Intel will be subject to layoffs. My point was that the graphics division itself will still be around, as integrated mobile SoCs are basically the only revenue stream Intel still has a good handle on. That requires a graphics core, and all of the other usable options are either not for sale to Intel, have burned Intel in the past, or are owned by Arm.
- porphyra 1y agoI just hope that Intel doesn't squander the talent like they did with Jim Keller.
- lotsofpulp 1y agoIntel still has all the same short sighted bosses, the board of directors at Intel hasn’t changed.
- brookst 1y agoIntel’s core competence is squandering talent by having finance managers and outside consultants make technology business decisions. Something happened to their culture a few decades ago and they forgot that revenue is a trailing indicator of good decisions and you can’t just decide you want to make a lot of money and trust the product strategy to materialize from that.
- xiphias2 1y agoToo bad it was not Apple who hired her for M4, but in business leaders are always the most closed ones.
- mckenzba 1y agoFrom what I recall, Apple forbids its employees from participating in open source work it doesn't approve of. And given Apple's culture of secrecy, its agenda of maintaining a walled garden with their products, and her work basically contradicting the two, I doubt her being hired by Apple would benefit anyone other than Apple.
- ta988 1y agoApple is too much about beeing closed and creating barriers not sure that would have been a good fit. Plus that's a good way to flee a country quickly degrading.
- homebrewer 1y agoThanks Jesus it's Intel and not Apple, Intel has been extremely good at working upstream and has immense contributions in the Linux kernel, mesa, and elsewhere. Wasting such talent on Apple would make the world worse for us all.
- MangoToupe 1y agoI don't see a future for intel, frankly, but I'm very happy she found a good paying job.
- chao- 1y agoWish her the best with this. Intel staying competitive in GPUs can only benefit the consumer. Those who want a mid-tier graphic card, without paying to compete with AI use cases, may not a huge group, but we do exist! Those who use desktop Linux may be a small group among that small group, but we do exist!
- frabonacci 1y agoFrom "draw a triangle" to upstream Vulkan on M1. Practically, this makes the Venus/virtio path viable for guests on Apple Silicon (no passthrough in VZ), which is what many people actually need.