Ben Widawsky, a Linux engineer who has worked at Intel for 17 years, recently announced that he has left Intel to join Google. When asked about the scope of work after joining Google, he revealed: "Chrome gfx, like the rest of them".
According to the introduction , Ben Widawsky has been with Intel since 2005; first contributing to the Larrabee discrete GPU project, and then to the company's Linux graphics driver stack for several years. In 2018, he shifted his focus from the Intel Linux graphics driver to improving Intel's support for FreeBSD and making various Intel hardware improvements for FreeBSD. More recently, he has been working on significant CXL 2.0 support for Linux, and has contributed a lot.
Ben Widawsky left his CXL 2.0 job at Intel in May and joined Google this month as a software engineer. After his departure, other Intel engineers will continue to work on CXL 2.0 support for upstream cores. Ben Widawsky also stated in the email :
I am leaving Intel. Update the email address to korg and add the .mailmap entry. For now, I'll be reducing my responsibilities in CXL development, but I still plan to allocate my time on this work; I can still be a good replacement if I need to be a maintainer (which may be possible in the future). will change).