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Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end

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838 points alsetmusic | 6 comments | 27 Aug 25 01:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.252s | source | bottom
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syntaxing ◴[27 Aug 25 02:06 UTC] No.45034679[source]▶
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?
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kccqzy ◴[27 Aug 25 02:18 UTC] No.45034754[source]▶
Yes I think so. Her resume says she started working for Intel on open source graphics driver this month.
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1. monocasa ◴[27 Aug 25 04:09 UTC] No.45035374[source]▶
Good luck to her. That's one of the pieces of Intel I think will survive its slow motion implosion.
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2. porphyra ◴[27 Aug 25 09:26 UTC] No.45037241[source]▶
I just hope that Intel doesn't squander the talent like they did with Jim Keller.
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3. brookst ◴[27 Aug 25 11:58 UTC] No.45038447[source]▶
Intel’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.
4. lotsofpulp ◴[27 Aug 25 14:46 UTC] No.45040475[source]▶
Intel still has all the same short sighted bosses, the board of directors at Intel hasn’t changed.
5. pjmlp ◴[27 Aug 25 16:52 UTC] No.45042082[source]▶
Hardly, Phoronix has a few reports from Linux driver folks being layed off at Intel.
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6. monocasa ◴[28 Aug 25 13:47 UTC] No.45052149[source]▶
Everywhere 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.