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If. If they can proritize _and_ execute on that vision.
by alanfranz 3y ago
If.
If they can proritize _and_ execute on that vision.
- slt2021 3y agothere is also second mover advantage, where they just need to copy-cat the best part of nvidia's ML stack and dont waste time figuring out what works/what doesn't work. they will get users simply because they will be alternative to nvidia. Add good pricing strategy and it can be immediate success
- msla 3y ago> there is also second mover advantage, where they just need to copy-cat the best part of nvidia's ML stack and dont waste time figuring out what works/what doesn't work. Seems like patents would stop that.
- slt2021 3y agodidn't know nvidia patented matmul and dot product
- m00x 3y agoThere's a lot more involved than matmul and dot products.
- bmicraft 3y agoDidn't the Google v Oracle lawsuit end up confirming that you can't patent an API?
- slt2021 3y agoAMD doesnt have to implement CUDA api, they just need to make sure their compute framework works well with pytorch/tf/MLIR or whatever high level framework is being used. Cuda itself will change over time, so no reason for AMD to pick cuda, because nobody writes CUDA kernels by hand, they use high level frameworks
- orra 3y agoNo, it confirmed reimplementing an API is not copyright infringement. The patent claims were rejected simply because the Google implementations were written in such a way the patents did not apply.
- fatfingerd 3y agoI'm actually happier if they deliver a mediocre GPU performance seamlessly. I would be as annoyed as the gamers to be priced out of a great desktop/video setup. If hype more fully occupied Nvidia's fragile race cars I'd have a nicer laptop.
- justinjlynn 3y agoWith Ryzen and their other recent products and their rapid pace of improvement, they certainly have developed a decent track record of that.
- m00x 3y agoThey're crushing it on hardware, but being left behind in the firmware/software.
- justinjlynn 3y agoGetting Intel proprietary advantage in widely used open source packages and systems is something Intel has been very, very good at doing. I use POWER9 systems and... Yeah, the software porting situation has been rather annoying (especially in media processing libraries that rely on things like embree, opencolorio and the like)