For several years now, major corporations have been involved in the development of the Linux kernel and open source in general. on how AMD and Intel developers have improved free software over the past 10 years, analyzing information on the number of changes (Git commits) made by representatives of the companies.
Researchers counted the unique email addresses of developers from each corporate domain. It turns out that Intel experienced steady growth in this area up to and including 2016. Until that point, both the number of addresses and the number of Git commits created in their name were increasing. However, in the later years, Intel employees' activity slightly declined.
In contrast, the number of AMD specialists contributing to the Linux kernel has been steadily growing, although it is still significantly lower than that of the 'blue team'. But it is precisely because of them that progress has been made in the graphics domain. In particular, this has enabled the development of the Radeon Software Linux driver.
In 2017, 225 companies participated in kernel development, including Red Hat, IBM, Samsung, and others. looks like this:
Overall, according to , as of 2018, the largest corporate contributors to open source on the largest resource GitHub, which was purchased by Microsoft, were the following companies:
As for working with CPUs, AMD mainly relies on its partners at SUSE and other companies. One can only hope that this will increase the number of fixes in the kernel, as for the last 3 years the main efforts of the 'red team' have been focused on graphics. Perhaps this will change in 2020.
Source: 3dnews.ru
