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That sounds reasonable on the surface, but cards don't cost a lot, and sending them out for free to leverage community interest for the open source stack could
by rhn_mk1 5y ago
That sounds reasonable on the surface, but cards don't cost a lot, and sending them out for free to leverage community interest for the open source stack could be extremely cost effective.
- paulmd 5y agoEven better, you can provide support for gaming cards and then the community pays you for them instead of you having to pay for it out of dev-rel budget. And yet AMD is actively moving in the opposite direction and dropping support for older hardware from both their Windows driver, as well as from ROCm and their other compute software. It's hard to overstate what a positive impact gaming card support and donations of hardware to educational institutions and other devrel have been for CUDA - those are the people who are writing the next 10 years of your software, that sells the actual enterprise hardware. And at this point it's not just "can't afford to support it", AMD is doing fine these days, they just don't want to. Kind of baffling.
- generalizations 5y agoIf they generate demand they can't keep up with (without messing up their strategy), it's entirely possible that negative perception would hurt then more than the 'don't care' perception they have now.