Apple introduces M4 chip

Re:Apple introduces M4 chip by skohan on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @03:48PM (#40290696)

> a dedicated Nvidia rig

I am honestly shocked Nvidia has been allowed to maintain their moat with cuda. It seems like AMD would have a ton to gain just spending a couple million a year to implement all the relevant ML libraries with a non-cuda back-end.

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Re:Apple introduces M4 chip by bee_rider on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @12:16AM (#40294275)

AMD doesn’t really seem inclined toward building developer ecosystems in general.

Intel seems like they could have some interesting stuff in the annoyingly named “OneAPI” suite but I ran it on my iGPU so I have no idea if it is actually good. It was easy to use, though!

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Re:Apple introduces M4 chip by jimmySixDOF on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @04:49AM (#40295752)

There are quite a few back and forth X/Twitter storms in teacups between George Hotz / tinygrad and the AMD management about opening up the firmware for custom ML integrations to replace CUDA but last I checked they were running into walls

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Re:Apple introduces M4 chip by skohan on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @12:46PM (#40300189)

I don't understand why you would need custom firmware. It seems like you could go a long way just implementing back-ends for popular ML libraries in openCL / compute shaders

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