News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:AMD Funded a Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built on ROCm: I... by kkielhofner on Monday February 12, 2024 @05:13PM (#39351254)
Indeed, but this is extremely short-sighted.

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.

Re:AMD Funded a Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built on ROCm: I... by Certhas on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @04:28AM (#39356010)
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.