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There is a truly gigantic demand for this - I expect you won't be waiting too long.
by FL33TW00D 3y ago
There is a truly gigantic demand for this - I expect you won't be waiting too long.
- throwup238 3y agoI’ve been waiting sixteen years.
- FL33TW00D 3y agoThere has never been more money riding on eliminating the CUDA monopoly than now.
- ShamelessC 3y agoThat’s been true for 16 years.
- bryanlarsen 3y agoIt's now a trillion dollar market (as measured by market cap). This has only been true for a few months.
- cyanydeez 3y agowell, that's with the 1000% profit on Nvidias monopoly.
- michaelt 3y agoEh, 16 years ago CUDA was the cheap option, compared to other HPC offerings. And there wasn't a parts shortage (modulo some cryptocurrency mining, but that impacted both GPU vendors) And ML models weren't so large as to make 8GB of vram sound meagre. And there weren't a bunch of venture capitalists throwing money at the work, because the state of the art models were doing uninspiring things. Like trying to tag your holiday photos, but doing it wrong because they couldn't tell a bicycle helmet and a bicycle apart.
- chrsw 3y agoIt feels like playing software catchup in this fast moving sector is very challenging. NVIDIA+CUDA is kind of a standard at this point. AMD's CPUs still ran Windows. AMD's GPUs still ran DirectX and OpenGL. This feels different.
- qwertox 3y agoRelated (published yesterday): Intel CEO attacks Nvidia on AI: 'The entire industry is motivated to eliminate the CUDA market' https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/intel-ceo-attacks-nvidia-on-ai-the-entire-industry-is-motivated-to-eliminate-the-cuda-market https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...
- bbatha 3y agoThe chip industry is sure. But are the customers? The customers who cared are jaded by nearly 15 years of intel and amd utterly failing to make a compelling alternative and likely have a large existing investment in CUDA based GPUs.
- Dalewyn 3y agoWhether it's Microsoft with Win32, AMD with x86-64, or Nvidia with CUDA, the winner is always the guy who enable people to do things with their computers. Meanwhile, priests like Intel with Itanium, Microsoft with WinRT, FOSS nerds, or AMD with GPUs will continue failing because most people ain't got no time to be preached to about how they achieve something.
- westmeal 3y agoI support this product that uses off the shelf nvidia GPUs to do <thing> on the computer they use for <big machine>. I see a lot of IT deps and MSPs asking if they can use AMD gpus because apparently a lot of dells come with em or something. I always have to tell them no and to just buy a P1000 or one of the other cheapo quadros instead and I hate it.
- uluyol 3y agoYes, but no customer wants to give Nvidia monopoly money forever either. So like it or not they need alternatives.
- mikecoles 3y agoI wish I could buy ML cards with Monopoly money.
- tails4e 3y agoHIP is a direct drop in for CUDA. It's ready, and many folks using it ported CUDA code with little to no effort. The SW story has been bad for a long time, but it is perhaps right now better than you think