> what happened? Key stakeholders in OpenCL started pulling out. The upcoming Khronos spec didn't have the entire industry on board, and both Microsoft and App

> what happened? Key stakeholders in OpenCL started pulling out. The upcoming Khronos spec didn't have the entire industry on board, and both Microsoft and Apple pushed vendor-controlled GPU runtimes on consumer hardware. AMD didn't have the same support they did pre-2010, so a lot of their efforts fell apart. Again, Nvidia's key is that they thrive in this chaos. They want people to make half-assed Metal Performance Shaders and DirectML programs, because it makes their ecosystem seem so strong and intersectional by comparison. If Intel invests hard enough in the right software, that's half of the problem solved.