The Death Of Clear Linux, Other Intel Linux Engineering Setbacks In 2025

When it came to the most viewed AMD Linux/open-source news of 2025 there were a lot of accomplishments for the company this year both on the CPU and graphics side of the house and from consumer to server hardware. Today is a look back at the most popular Intel open-source/Linux news of the year, which unfortunately, their layoffs and other cuts to their software engineering were attracting a lot of interest.

When it came to the most popular Intel Linux/open-source news of 2025 on Phoronix, many of the top stories were about their changes as a result of layoffs, corporate restructuring, and other ongoing changes at the company. To much dismay, Intel's Clear Linux project was shutdown this year, a number of prominent Linux kernel engineers left Intel, and impacts to their other open-source projects. Here is a look at the most-viewed Intel news of 2025