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As a value multiplying investment AMD should buy a company that has programmers that can code a half-decent CUDA compatible layer for its graphics cards.
by antman 6y ago
As a value multiplying investment AMD should buy a company that has programmers that can code a half-decent CUDA compatible layer for its graphics cards.
- danielscrubs 6y agoCuda will suddenly change and then the AMD implementation will look old. AMD is in a position to take over via LLVM open source extensions instead of CUDA.
- salicideblock 6y agoI would love to see that happen. But it will also depend on the outcome of Oracle v. Google regarding the copyrightability of APIs
- giancarlostoro 6y agoIf they can provide an alternative towards the same goal they dont necessarily have to copy the API just make their own reliable API. I just wonder if the concept of CUDA is patented in regards to GPUs.
- ampdepolymerase 6y agoThey already have ROCm, just that it lacks Windows compatibility.
- giancarlostoro 6y agoThanks! I was hoping somebody would steer me in the right direction if they had something. I wonder when AMD will focus on making things that are developer focused, I know for example that Intel has their own C++ compiler, not sure if AMD has one, though I heard it mentioned they've been contributing to LLVM. If the tooling developers use is enhanced for your hardware platform it will make it almost a no brainer to use for new projects.
- ampdepolymerase 6y agoThe politics is even more interesting. https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/892 https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/892