After discovering this morning that Intel archived/discontinued its On Demand “SDSi” GitHub project around that controversial feature, it was a slippery slope in noticing Intel recently archived around two dozen other open-source projects they previously maintained.
Since late 2025 there have been numerous GitHub repositories that Intel officially maintained and now are marked as archived with Intel engineers no longer maintaining them. The latest projects now-archived by Intel since December are noted below. Notably, abandoning of these projects all came after last year’s unfortunate summary in Intel’s Open-Source Strategy Is Changing At Odds With The Ethos Of Open-Source.
Besides their recent discontinuing of the Gaudi user-space code, ending Clear Linux, and other open-source setbacks, these latest projects being archived include:
GPGMM – Sunset just this past week was GPGMM as a general purpose GPU memory management library. This C++ library was designed for use by applications and runtimes combined with modern graphics and compute APIs.
Polite Guard – This was a project Intel announced nearly one year ago to the day as an NLP language model for classifying text as polite or not. Yeah, it doesn’t exactly fit Intel’s core businesses but was just one of their many open-source contributions amid the AI craze… Intel hoped Polite Guard usage by customers would “significantly boost customer satisfaction and loyalty” for ensuring polite text. This and many of the other projects now-archived were done in mid-December.
Intel UI Icons – Closing up shop at the end of January was Intel UI Icons for conveniently providing Intel’s brand icons for easy web embedding.
OpenVINO Extension for Stable Diffusion – Showcasing their OpenVINO AI toolkit — which they still maintain — for use Stable Diffusion.
HiBench – An Intel project providing a big data benchmarking suite for Hadoop and similar uses. Intel had maintained HiBench the prior 14 years until it was stopped just before Christmas.
Node-DC-EIS – An effort to provide Data Center Employee Information Services in Node.js for showcasing workloads for Node.js use in the data center with Xeon processors. The project was started a decade ago.
open-omics-scanpy – Single-cell analysis code in Python that is quite scalable.
OP-TEE Release Binaries – A de facto location for easily having the latest OP-TEE assets for TDX use. There were also other OP-TEE projects discontinued such as the out-of-tree OP-TEE Linux driver being archived too.
FineIBT Userspace – FineIBT user-space prototyping code though in this case that work has largely been upstreamed I believe.
VCDP linux-kmd – Some out-of-tree media driver code.
Plus a number of other Intel GitHub repositories of lesser importance and for some that were started but never end up saw code being committed. Most of these GitHub projects weren’t really central to Intel’s core business but just showcasing interesting use-cases for Xeon CPUs, making their OpenVINO AI toolkit more appealing, etc. So given Intel’s difficult headwinds, it’s not too surprising they ended these but still unfortunate to see them continuing to take steps away from their former open-source glory in being one of the most significant contributors to the open-source ecosystem as a whole. With their reduction in engineering talent over the past year, many of these projects became unmaintainable or weren’t seeing any code commits for months before formally being archived. Again, more details on the unfortunate open-source situation within Intel’s Open-Source Strategy Is Changing At Odds With The Ethos Of Open-Source.
