For several years now, large corporations have been involved in the development of the Linux kernel and open source in general. about how AMD and Intel developers have improved free software over the past 10 years, for which I analyzed information on the number of changes (Git-commits) made by company representatives.
The researchers counted the number of unique developer email addresses from each corporate domain. As it turned out, Intel had a steady growth in this area until 2016 inclusive. Up to this point, both the number of addresses and the number of Git commits created on their behalf has grown. However, in later years, the activity of Intel employees dropped slightly.
In turn, the number of AMD specialists making changes to the Linux kernel is steadily growing, although it is many times less than the number of blue team players. But it was thanks to them that progress was made in the graphic direction. In particular, this allowed the development of the Radeon Software Linux driver.
In 2017, 225 companies participated in the development of the kernel, including Red Hat, IBM, Samsung and others. looks like that:
In general, according to , as of 2018, the largest corporate "contributors" to open source on the largest resource GitHub, which was bought by Microsoft, were the following companies:
When it comes to CPU work, here AMD mainly relies on its partners at SUSE and elsewhere. It is hoped that this will increase the number of fixes in the core, since in 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