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The tool now gets over €1.8 million per year.
Intel announced they decided to become Corporate Patron of the Blender Development Fund which means that they'll be supporting the open-source project with at least €120,000 per year. The company joined other tech giants including AMD, Apple, and Nvidia.
The news also means that the fund now gets over €1.8 million per year for the development of Blender so the future of the toolkit looks bright.
"Intel is extending its collaboration and commitment to the Blender open-source community. We are already incorporating the oneAPI cross-architecture, CPU- and GPU-driven features, and performance of Intel oneAPI Rendering Toolkit libraries into Blender to benefit creators of all kinds. We share the Blender Foundation’s mindset to make world-class visual technologies available to everyone through open-source software and open standards." said Raja Koduri, Intel senior vice president and general manager of the Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics (AXG) Group.
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