[rektide]

Intel is such a hero of this world. They make so many amazing things happen. And they do the job well.

There's obvious/huge ecosystem examples: there was a whole industry around ultra-proprietary SSDs, and Intel rolled up their sleeves & developed & standardized NVMe to commoditize the technology, and then dropped absolutely killer products at a much more competitive rate.

But Intel's work pushing the Linux kernel forward is just amazing. They have so many teams doing so much, optimizing, & adding support. And so many of their products have great & readily available documentation, which is something very few other companies have.