Intel Habana Labs & Xe Linux Driver Maintainer Steps Down

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Habana Labs & Xe Linux Driver Maintainer Steps Down

Coming as a surprise, longtime Linux developer Oded Gabbay announced he's left Intel / Habana Labs and is therefore stepping down from the maintainer role of the Linux kernel drivers for the Intel Xe DRM driver and more notably the Habana Labs accelerator driver that he's maintained from the start...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Habana-Labs-Maintainer-Down

[fitzie]

obviously he's going to a AI company to get some equity rather then just a paycheck. intel really needs to spin out a ai tech company so they can keep the talent around these days.