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Re:AMD Reports Q2 2020 Earnings by RavlaAlvar on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @06:59AM (#23985342)
I am not seeing AMD putting any serious contenders for CUDA though.
Re:AMD Reports Q2 2020 Earnings by xondono on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @09:59AM (#23986728)
They don’t really need to.

Nvidia will have to validate and launch all of it’s PCIe4 on Epyc/Ryzen processors, so it’s not like AMD won’t benefit from the Deep Learning hype

Re:AMD Reports Q2 2020 Earnings by zucker42 on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @12:18PM (#23988467)
Isn't HIP+ROCm a serious "competitor" to CUDA? You can convert your code automatic from CUDA to HIP. At least that's why the advertising says; I haven't used it myself. Plus, PyTorch and Tensorflow have AMD support, I thought.
Re:AMD Reports Q2 2020 Earnings by TomVDB on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @03:32PM (#23990689)
It may convert your own code, but it can’t convert the CUDA libraries.

It also doesn’t help that AMD has stopped supporting ROCm for the current consumer GPUs.

Re:AMD Reports Q2 2020 Earnings by slavik81 on Thursday July 30, 2020 @02:45AM (#23995347)
Which CUDA libraries are you referring to? NVIDIA libraries like cuBLAS? There are ROCm libraries for a subset of those, but it's definitely a work-in-progress.
Re:AMD Reports Q2 2020 Earnings by butterisgood on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @03:27PM (#23990644)
They might not have to, as others have pointed out. Intel, on the other hand, is fighting the multi-front battle against a lot of competitors. It’s great for consumers, but Intel might have to decide to focus too.