Re:Lisa Su Saved AMD. Now She Wants Nvidia's AI Crown
by cameronh90 on Friday June 02, 2023 @08:41PM
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> it might be too late and the proprietary ecosystem has probably won.
Compiler ecosystems can and have changed rather quickly. Especially given that most NNs run on a handful of frameworks. Not _that_ many people are writing directly on top of CUDA/cuDNN.
Make an equivalent toolchain that runs on cheaper hardware and the migration would be swift.
Currently AMD hardware is a bit behind and the toolchain is frustratingly buggy, but it's probably not as big of a moat as NVIDIA are trading on. Especially since NV's toolchain isn't particularly polished either.
Compiler ecosystems can and have changed rather quickly. Especially given that most NNs run on a handful of frameworks. Not _that_ many people are writing directly on top of CUDA/cuDNN.
Make an equivalent toolchain that runs on cheaper hardware and the migration would be swift.
Currently AMD hardware is a bit behind and the toolchain is frustratingly buggy, but it's probably not as big of a moat as NVIDIA are trading on. Especially since NV's toolchain isn't particularly polished either.