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Instead, AMD and Intel saw a cash cow. And those aren't small, ignorable competitors. AMD and Intel have been trying hard to compete with Nvidia for a while no
by p1esk 3y ago
Instead, AMD and Intel saw a cash cow. And those aren't small, ignorable competitors.
AMD and Intel have been trying hard to compete with Nvidia for a while now. I mean in AI accelerator market. Little success so far.
- ethbr1 3y agoI'd say AMD and Intel have been focused on their CPU businesses. If AMD had been really interested (from a corporate strategic level) in the GPGPU market, their driver/library team would be a lot bigger.
- gpapilion 3y agoAMD was but focused on hpc instead on ml. They have very large installations, but the card is tuned for fp32+ calculations not lower precisions like NVIDIA.
- ethbr1 3y agoThe other side effect of HPC, I assume, is that compatibility and dev tooling are non-concerns. You provide a BLAS implementation, and your primary customer can take it from there. As opposed to Nvidia's current market, which spans HPC to AWS/Azure/GCP to corporate datacenter to "I followed the directions on Reddit" personal machines.