Intel Open Sources Graphics Drivers

Intel’s Keith Packard announced earlier today that Intel was open sourcing graphics drivers for their new 965 Express Chipset family graphics controllers. From the announcement: ‘Designed to support advanced rendering features in modern graphics APIs, this chipset family includes support for programmable vertex, geometry, and fragment shaders. By open sourcing the drivers for this new technology, Intel enables the open source community to experiment, develop, and contribute to the continuing advancement of open source 3D graphics.

This is a very smart move by Intel. Early thoughts on the latest drivers don’t seem that impressive, but they are on the road to recovery. Now when is NVIDIA and ATI going to follow suit? ;-)