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Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs

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Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs

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Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs

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Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs

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I run all AMD but this is a sad trend for everyone. Intel has been very good to linux over the years and AMD has a lot of catching up to do to have the same kind of influence in linux.
- that's from 6 years ago
  
  It's possible the situation has changed to a degree where AMD overtook Intel in the intervening years, but I think we would've seen some headlines if that was the case. I couldn't find any reliable sources either way.
  As someone who has no allegiance to either company, I really want Intel to turn things around and be a strong competitor again so that we can all benefit from their resources in the open source space.
- If like to see that chart adjust for revenue and market share. I imagine it'd be more even.
Intel is in really serious trouble. At the rate they are falling I wouldn't be surprised if they go belly up in 5 years.
Losing Intel would be very bad for a lot of reasons and I sincerity hope they can pull though. I think part of the problem is short term thinking from the board instead of long term planning and spending.
Fuck Intel. AMD and ARM will run the table.
- Sure maybe arm eventually takes off for most usage but in the mean time this is looking a lot like AMD is going to be a monopoly. If you think AMD will act any better than intel did when it still had to compete with AMD on the low end I have a bridge to sell you.
  
  Corporate dysfunction is starting to hit AMD too.
  It’s mostly on the GPU side for now. But bad decisions, drama and unforced errors (especially on the enterprise/prosumer GPU side) are beginning to worry me.
  
  I agree, though I expect them to be slightly better. Mostly, I expect them to be tied to their commitment to open source software. If they betray that there will be a lot of noise. That's better than Intel who never did open source software.
  
  AMD doesn't make there own hardware
- Why?
  Competition is good. AMD and ARM aren't necessarily competitors since they make there own chips. The historical Intel competitor was companies like TSMC Samsung and Gobalfounderies but they aren't even in the same league these days.
- I so want ARM desktop PCs to become mainstream
  
  It’s just a better ISA if you ask me. It's more scalable, up and down, and more specializable. At least theoretically.
  Great examples are the Fujitsu A64FX cores which went all in on SIMD performance, or Broadcomm's 8-way SMT cores which were perfect for low IPC stuff like databases. Cloud servers could have massive arrays of small core CPUs, and some big cores already have a modular (but untapped) amounts of L3 for gaming.
  It’s also easy to learn. I learned ARM Thumb in school! x86 would have been an utter pig.
Intel as a whole is unmaintained
- How to destroy a company 101
Don't worry, ai will maintain it...
- mAIntAIn it?
wdym layoffs? intel people who maintain the drivers got fired? why can't contributors just maintain it?
- Who do you think the contributors are?
  Companies pay people to work on Linux. That's not to say that there aren't any volunteer contributors but most of the work is paid.
- I don't know if you were joking or not... But in case you weren't: the Intel guys typically have information about upcoming / unreleased products before the details are out in the open. Yes, the drivers can be maintained by the community when the information is available... But, day one driver support won't be there (since they are generally developed in-house by Intel, and then pushed up to the kernel for release), and community development would (likely) take significantly longer....
  And on the Enterprise customer side, there might be some hesitation about adopting newer Intel products that don't have drivers officially supported by the company...at least in environments where Linux would be the (logical) choice... That might lead Enterprises to look at Windows instead of Linux.
  
  Realistically lt will lead to enterprises using AMD instead, Windows just simply isn't even an option for many enterprise uses (mainly server applications)

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