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Re:AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M by light_hue_1 on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @02:27PM (#40929849)
> "fix"? What is there to fix? AMD has been simultaneously fighting Intel and Nvidia, two MUCH larger companies, and it's been winning the fight against Intel for close to a decade now.

There's everything to fix. AMD is sitting on a gold mine and is squandering massive amounts of money every month that they don't just get their shitty software stack in order.

AMD could be as rich as NVIDIA. Instead, Lisa Su for some insane reason refuses to build even the most mediocre ML-capable libraries for their GPUs.

If I could ask anyone in the ML world at the moment what the heck they're thinking, it would be her. Nothing makes sense about AMDs actions for years on this topic. If I was the board, I'd be talking about her exit for wasting such an opportunity.

Re:AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M by latchkey on Thursday July 11, 2024 @02:54AM (#40934239)
> Instead, Lisa Su for some insane reason refuses to build even the most mediocre ML-capable libraries for their GPUs.

Spending $665m on a company that builds AI tooling, is a refusal?

Re:AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M by lostmsu on Thursday July 11, 2024 @05:56PM (#40940964)
Considering people mostly bitch about AMD driver bugs and their GPU computing-related SDKs, I don't think buying a high-level AI sweat shop is going to fix their issues. I am not even sure if in the entire Silo AI you could find 5 people who understand AMD GPU assembly code and can effectively debug generated kernels.

They'd get more value offering $500k+ comp to a few people from https://handmadecities.com/

Re:AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M by latchkey on Friday July 12, 2024 @02:55AM (#40943263)
> I don't think buying a high-level AI sweat shop is going to fix their issues... They'd get more value...

It is a wonder why you aren't the CEO.

Re:AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M by lostmsu on Friday July 12, 2024 @10:51AM (#40946138)
That's all right: she is 20 or so years older, I'm still on track to get there.