Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs

It's possible the situation has changed to a degree where AMD overtook Intel in the intervening years, but I think we would've seen some headlines if that was the case. I couldn't find any reliable sources either way.

As someone who has no allegiance to either company, I really want Intel to turn things around and be a strong competitor again so that we can all benefit from their resources in the open source space.

Corporate dysfunction is starting to hit AMD too.

It’s mostly on the GPU side for now. But bad decisions, drama and unforced errors (especially on the enterprise/prosumer GPU side) are beginning to worry me.

I agree, though I expect them to be slightly better. Mostly, I expect them to be tied to their commitment to open source software. If they betray that there will be a lot of noise. That's better than Intel who never did open source software.

AMD doesn't make there own hardware

It’s just a better ISA if you ask me. It's more scalable, up and down, and more specializable. At least theoretically.

Great examples are the Fujitsu A64FX cores which went all in on SIMD performance, or Broadcomm's 8-way SMT cores which were perfect for low IPC stuff like databases. Cloud servers could have massive arrays of small core CPUs, and some big cores already have a modular (but untapped) amounts of L3 for gaming.

It’s also easy to learn. I learned ARM Thumb in school! x86 would have been an utter pig.