This shift happened a long time ago. Intel has been by far the best supporter of Linux of any SoC / processor vendor, with first party support of open source d

This shift happened a long time ago. Intel has been by far the best supporter of Linux of any SoC / processor vendor, with first party support of open source drivers for their wifi and GPUs. They patch the kernel to support their devices far ahead of their actual release. They have been pushing their own Linux based OSes (Meego, Tizen) for a while (without success).