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Re:AMD Funded a Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built on ROCm: I... by largbae on Monday February 12, 2024 @10:28AM (#39345893)
It certainly seems ironic that the company that beat Intel at its own compatibility game with x86-64 would abandon compatibility with today's market leader.
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Re:AMD Funded a Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built on ROCm: I... by rob74 on Monday February 12, 2024 @11:40AM (#39346966)
The situation is a bit different: AMD got its foot in the door with the x86 market because IBM back in the early 1980s forced Intel to license the technology so AMD could act as a second source of CPUs. In the GPU market, ATI (later bought by AMD) and nVidia emerged as the market leaders after the other 3D graphics pioneers (3Dfx) gave up - but their GPUs were never compatible in the first place, and if AMD tried to make them compatible, nVidia could sue the hell out of them...
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