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Re:Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business... by yen223 on Thursday February 08, 2024 @10:59PM (#39311224)
Everytime I'm tempted to think software is easy compared to hardware, I just remember that AMD is leaving about a trillion dollars worth of market cap on the table, because they haven't figured out a good alternative to CUDA.
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Re:Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business... by greenknight on Thursday February 08, 2024 @11:12PM (#39311300)
They are definetly putting a lot of effort into ROCm & HIP, but definetly accelerating.

ROCm 6 was out Dec 16 (2023), 5.5 was May (2023). 5 was Feb 10 (2022). 4 was Dec 19 (2020)

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Re:Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business... by patfla on Thursday February 08, 2024 @11:10PM (#39311287)
Fred Brooks wrote in The Mythical Man-Month that it's harder (more time-consuming) to produce the software that corresponds to a given hardware. In 1975.
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Re:Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business... by SkyMarshal on Thursday February 08, 2024 @11:22PM (#39311363)
Hardware was much simpler and less complex then than now. I wonder how or if that's changed by going from hundreds or thousands of transistors to billions.
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