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Re:Intel MKL on AMD Zen by nordsieck on Monday August 31, 2020 @04:24PM (#24335554)
> 4. This is one person (or a small group) at Intel who considers it the right thing to do.

> Maybe?

I guess it depends on where you work. Most places would probably fire someone who "took the initiative" to improve a competitor's product on company time.

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Re:Intel MKL on AMD Zen by cowsandmilk on Monday August 31, 2020 @09:19PM (#24337577)
Not on company time, but after leaving intel, some former employees added ARM support to ispc[0]. In the years since then, current Intel employees have maintained and even expanded the ARM support and Intel’s website even mentions it now[1].

[0] https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/29/ispc-retrospective.ht...

[1] https://devmesh.intel.com/projects/intel-ispc-in-unreal-engi...

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