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Intel open (source) Inside out

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 13, 2013

The Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog caught up with Intel’s VP of open source Imad Sousou at the firm’s IDF Intel Developer Forum 2013 to get a brief history of open source Intel.

Intel reminds is that as we stand today, we are twenty years (plus) on from the time when the open-source evolution/revolution started to reshape entire industries.

Intel has been developing its processor architecture prowess for 45 years now and further says that it has been at the heart of the movement since Linus Torvalds launched the Linux kernel on Intel architecture in 1991.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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