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Re:Intel CEO: 'The entire industry is motivated to eliminate... by anigbrowl on Thursday December 14, 2023 @10:52PM (#38650785)
Well yeah. Before I go renting a super GPU in the cloud, I'd like to get my feet wet with the 5 year old but reasonably well specced AMD GPU (Vega 48) in my iMac...but I can't. It's more rational for me to get an fancy 2021 GPU or a Jetson and stick it in an enclosure or build a Linux box around it. At least I know CUDA is a mature ecosystem and is going to be around for a while, so whatever time I invest in it is likely to pay for itself.

I get your point about AMD not wanting to spend money on supporting old hardware, but how do they expect to build a market without a fan base?

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Re:Intel CEO: 'The entire industry is motivated to eliminate... by latchkey on Friday December 15, 2023 @12:43AM (#38651358)
> I get your point about AMD not wanting to spend money on supporting old hardware, but how do they expect to build a market without a fan base?

Look, I get it. You're right. They do need to work on building their market and they really screwed the pooch on the AI boat. The developer flywheel is hugely important and they missed out on that. That said, we can't expect them to go back in time, but we can keep moving forward. Having enough people making noise about wanting to play with their hardware is certainly a step in the right direction.

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