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The idea that a R&D department has cost restrictions doesn't really hold water. You can be sure that they already have rooms filled with every single AMD proces
by RL_Quine 7y ago
The idea that a R&D department has cost restrictions doesn't really hold water. You can be sure that they already have rooms filled with every single AMD processor that's ever been released, and a bunch which haven't. The cost of buying retail products at the scale of a company, even a small startup, is peanuts compared with even a single engineers salary. I was recently asked which test phones to buy for application development, and didn't get kick back when I said to buy every single one of the top selling on Amazon, to begin with.
- rat9988 7y agoThe question is why would they spend that much money to test it on a competing platform.
- wtallis 7y agoIntel's pretty motivated to do so for competitive analysis reasons even if they don't care about doing QA to benefit AMD.
- Iwan-Zotow 7y agoWell, I'm pretty sure Intel tests competitor product, and maybe even test MKL. So what? Suppose I (being Intel engineer, which I'm not) tested linalg+MKL on threadripper and found it to be 50% slower. Then WHAT? Ask management for more money for MKL team to make it faster on AMD? I don't think such proposal would fly.
- karavelov 7y agoI don't think anybody expects Intel to do anything in that case. What is expected is not to cripple performance when running on competitors CPUs.
- Iwan-Zotow 7y agoProblem is not testing per se. Ok, they tested and found out MKL is 50% slower. Then what? Write proposal for MKL team to spend time/money to make MKL faster on AMD? I don't think this would fly with upper management...