Kevork Kechichian who is the new leader of Intel’s EVP and GM Data Center group spoke during his keynote pertaining to the upcoming Xeon 6+ Clearwater Forest announcement that the company needs to figure out how to make open-source more of an advantage to Intel and not its competitors.

I can’t say I’m shocked. As open specification chipsets become more common, available, and functional, FOSS advocates have fewer reasons to tolerate working at Intel.

There was a moment for Intel to copyleft important parts of their technology stack to stay relevant in the long term.

I think they missed it 5 or 10 years ago.

Watching this company slowly circle the drain has been a pretty sad saga.