Re:AMD Funded a Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built on ROCm: I...
by Certhas on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @04:28AM
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Those people didn't build the CUDA ecosystem. nVidia, Google and Facebook did. I think your hypothesis is pretty self-serving.
nVidia is dominant now. The question is, what's your wedge.
You don't win an overall market by focusing on several hundred million dollar bespoke HPC builds where the platform (frankly) doesn't matter at all. I'm working on a project on an AMD platform on the list (won't say - for now) and needless to say you build whatever you have to what's there, regardless of what it takes and the operators/owners and vendor support teams pour in whatever resources are necessary to make it work.
You win a market a generation at a time - supporting low end cards for tinkerers, the educational market, etc. AMD should focus on the low-end because that's where the next generation of AI devs, startups, innovation, etc is coming from and for now that's going to continue to be CUDA/Nvidia.