The problem is mismatch between spec sheet and customer needs, not mismatch between spec sheet and card. I don't know whether this is a management problem at AM

The problem is mismatch between spec sheet and customer needs, not mismatch between spec sheet and card. I don't know whether this is a management problem at AMD or an engineering problem at AMD or both. I don't really care, either -- a "wans't me!" from engineering is completely uninteresting to me. The problem is that AMD's consumer cards don't run ROCm while NVidia's consumer cards all run CUDA. I am amazed that Geohot reached out to AMD to extend an olive branch so far as to force their failure of a product to work despite itself, because frankly I'd just have expected AMD to spin excuses like you did. I am encouraged to see that they took a higher road; hopefully that translates to actual execution. We'll see.