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Re:Cycles X by pavlov on Friday April 23, 2021 @10:39PM (#26921779)
I'm genuinely surprised that AMD didn't put in an effort to implement CUDA themselves. It's been almost 15 years. They should have started a skunkworks project to get CUDA running immediately.

Intel didn't take long to eat crow and ship the AMD64 instruction set in their CPUs as soon as it became clear they'd lost the 64-bit ISA game. AMD should have taken a lesson from that: if the market wants the other guy's API, you can implement it, customers will be pleased, and that gives you power over the API that you wouldn't have otherwise.

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Re:Cycles X by RaisingSpear on Friday April 23, 2021 @10:51PM (#26921840)
> I'm genuinely surprised that AMD didn't put in an effort to implement CUDA themselves

I think HIP is their attempt at that, as it's very similar to CUDA and is meant to be easy to port. Maybe there's reasons why they (or anyone else really) can't just adopt CUDA (licensing?), though that's beyond my knowledge.

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