Every and any hardware manufacturer can or has.

I will take Intel being sold or going under over cronyism and corporate welfare.

I assume that you’re at least halfway joking about backdoors in Intel.

Anything released on Github has no code requirements or restrictions, that is why some people do reproducible builds of software, to verify is has 100% functionality of a binary release. Any app from F-Droid is repoducible.

If Intel can’t pay their own bills from Intel’s money, they can be sold to a private company, file for chapter 11, or go out of business.

It’s too bad that the F-Droid releases are far behind. I do not install from Github to prevent against proprietary dependancies.