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Re:AMD Expands AI Product Lineup with GPU-Only Instinct Mi30... by jiggawatts on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @05:33PM (#36317773)
Can someone who works at AMD please print this out, roll it up, and smack some senior managers on the nose with it?

NVIDIA is about to walk off with a trillion dollars because nobody at AMD “gets it”.

With no meaningful competition, NVIDIA will gouge as hard as they can. Such as charging $50K for a card that’s not too different to a 4090 but with more memory.

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Re:AMD Expands AI Product Lineup with GPU-Only Instinct Mi30... by mindcrime on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @05:44PM (#36317924)
NVIDIA is about to walk off with a trillion dollars because nobody at AMD “gets it”.

I think they "get it" OK. Whether or not they can formulate a viable strategy and execute it is one question, but they get the idea that "AI is important" and they know where they stand vis-a-vis NVIDIA.

This is another reason I'm willing to invest some time and money in working with AMD products for AI/ML. History has shown us their ability to go toe-to-toe with a seemingly unassailable industry titan before, and they came out in pretty good shape then.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2023/05/31/lisa-su-s...

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Re:AMD Expands AI Product Lineup with GPU-Only Instinct Mi30... by JonChesterfield on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @06:22PM (#36318424)
AMD took aim at HPC and shipped Frontier. The ROCm stack is quite HPC themed because that was the driving project. Porting to run AI models is a work in progress but the back end is the same compiler stack that was written for graphics (largely games consoles iiuc) then upgraded for HPC, it'll get there.
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