According to a Phoronix report, Intel Corporation has decided to withdraw from a proposal to develop hybrid chips dubbed Thunder Bay, which were originally meant to replace Keem Bay. These portions of the Linux kernel will be completely removed in the near future.
Thunder Bay processors would likely be able to run on x86 Xeon cores and Movidius VPU cores, as indicated by the modifications that Intel began to make to the kernel code. They aren't expected to be shown until now.
The reasons for reducing the initiative aren't discussed. This is presumably due to financial difficulties and a major reorganization of Intel, during which tens of thousands of employees will be laid off. The process of removing Thunder Bay code from the Linux kernel has already begun. The corporation itself does not comment on the situation.
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