Corrections: Intel open sourced their driver not their GPUs. Broadcom open sourc...

sounds · on May 13, 2014

I understand what you're saying, that the situation is not completely clear-cut (especially what Broadcom is doing).

But Intel has most definitely documented their GPU registers and hardware – not just the intel open source driver:

nitrogen · on May 13, 2014

That is not the same as open sourcing the GPU itself. They haven't released HDL source for the chips themselves.