The principles of open development across software, hardware, and standards hold the keys to innovation, growth, and equal access to technology; together, we can create world-changing technology that improves the lives of everyone on the planet. Intel supports the Contributor Covenant.
Community Projects and Initiatives
Community-built open software based on open standards has fueled the modern connected world. Intel has been a leader in this community from the beginning and recognizes the value and need to contribute to a healthy, open ecosystem. Intel invests its time, expertise, and engineers in a myriad of critical open projects and foundations, employing many community maintainers who work across large and small projects.
Featured Projects
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What's New
Takeaways from Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) 19x
Open Source Evangelist Katherine Druckman shares her favorite talks.
Connect with Us at the Open Source Summit North America 2022
We're looking forward to seeing you in Austin, Texas, June 21 through June 24.
Enable a Cloud-based Framework for Networking
Deploying and managing network functions efficiently in a cloud-native environment needs improvement. Learn how Cloud Native Data Plane can help out.
Intel's Focus on Open-Source Security
Leading Intel's open-source and developer engagement strategy, Melissa Evers describes how contributors and users are working together to improve security. Read about Melissa's meeting with the Linux Foundation* contributors and their vision for advancing secure computing.
Open Letter to an Open Ecosystem
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger shares his perspective on the significance of open-source software and his belief that innovation thrives in an open ecosystem. Check out Pat’s call to action that empowers us all to enable our shared future through openness, choice, and trust.
Gramine (Formerly Graphene)
Gramine joins the Linux Foundation as an official Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC) project. (It's the newest project at the CCC.) Gramine is a lightweight library operating system. The project is designed to run applications in an isolated environment with benefits comparable to running a complete operating system in a virtual machine.
Linux* Kernel Contributions
Intel continues its position as a top contributor to the Linux* kernel. The company provided over 13,000 lines of code in just over 1,300 change sets (roughly 10% of the changes) to the kernel version 5.14. This includes:
- Extensive testing of an x86 floating point unit (FPU) code cleanup intended to increase stability
- Contributions to the core scheduling feature that allow multi-tenant hosts to enable hyperthreading with reduced exposure of tenant data on shared cores
Open 3D Engine (O3DE*)
The O3DE* Foundation hosts an Apache* 2.0 licensed multiplatform 3D engine that enables developers and content creators to build Triple-A (AAA) games, cinema-quality 3D worlds, and high-fidelity simulations without fees or commercial obligations.