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Losing the market leader for GPUs at a time when accelerators have almost become mainstream absolutely massive. Sure it might not be the end of the world for m
by andromeduck 11y ago
Losing the market leader for GPUs at a time when accelerators have almost become mainstream absolutely massive.
Sure it might not be the end of the world for many existing applications but think of the new/growing growing markets they basically control right now - deep neural networks, car automation, photorealistic offline rendering, accelerated simulation, accelerated HPC, gaming etc.
With the interest and demand from all those and potentially other segments like say Android could be enough to push BSD ahead of Linux in a few years and be absolutely crippling for the future prospects of Linux.
It'd basically be like GCC vs Clang all over again.