Oded Gabbay Leaves Intel and Habana Labs

TapTechNews May 17th news, Oded Gabbay, who has long been engaged in Linux development, recently sent an internal email announcing that he had left Intel and Habana Labs a few weeks ago, and since then he no longer serves as the maintainer of the Habana Labs accelerator driver and the Intel Xe DRM driver Linux kernel driver.

It is introduced that Oded Gabbay has made many important contributions to the Habana Labs AI accelerator driver, and he has also actively participated in the development process of the Linux kernel AI accelerator accel subsystem.

Oded Gabbay said that thereafter Ofir Bitton will take over his work in the Habana Labs driver, but the successor in the Xe driver aspect has not been determined yet.

However, TapTechNews noticed that Oded did not disclose which company he will go to next, but he said that although he will not continue to engage in kernel development work full-time, he may continue to participate in discussions from time to time.