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Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end

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838 points alsetmusic | 1 comments | 27 Aug 25 01:44 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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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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xiphias2 ◴[27 Aug 25 06:23 UTC] No.45036050[source]▶
Too bad it was not Apple who hired her for M4, but in business leaders are always the most closed ones.
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homebrewer ◴[27 Aug 25 08:30 UTC] No.45036897[source]▶
Thanks 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.
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koakuma-chan ◴[27 Aug 25 15:04 UTC] No.45040721[source]▶
Why? Apple makes good products. It seems, unlike Intel.
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kccqzy ◴[27 Aug 25 15:31 UTC] No.45041085[source]▶
Apple doesn't have any contributions to the Linux kernel or other parts of the Linux graphics stack. They are unlikely to hire someone who wants to work on open source.
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1. jajuuka ◴[27 Aug 25 20:19 UTC] No.45044652[source]▶
To be fair they don't have anything to do with Linux so there is nothing to contribute back towards. They use BSD licensed software for a reason.

Apple does have open source projects. https://opensource.apple.com But the scope is rather limited. For someone of Alyssa's skillset there really isn't anything there.