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Re:Facebook Is Forming a Team to Design Its Own Chips by patrickg_zill on Thursday April 19, 2018 @11:01AM (#16876467)
If they make CUDA the industry standard by porting it to AMD, and then Nvidia is still able to control the standard, over the long term AMD will always be in the position of having to catch up.
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Re:Facebook Is Forming a Team to Design Its Own Chips by jandrese on Thursday April 19, 2018 @11:27AM (#16876694)
I think the GP is suggesting AMD port TensorFlow to OpenCL to break up the CUDA monopoly.
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Re:Facebook Is Forming a Team to Design Its Own Chips by shmerl on Thursday April 19, 2018 @12:08PM (#16877045)
No need, there is already an industry standard that works across all hardware.
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