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The 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 alt
by bbatha 3y ago
The 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.
- smoldesu 3y ago> but no customer wants to give Nvidia monopoly money forever either. From a consumer perspective, I agree. From a datacenter, edge and industrial application perspective though, I think those crowds are content funding an effective monopoly. Hell, even after CUDA gets dethroned for AI, it wouldn't surprise me if the demand continued for supporting older CUDA codebases. AI is just one facet of HPC application. We'll see where things go in the long-run, but unless someone resurrects OpenCL it feels unlikely that we'll be digging CUDA's grave anytime soon. In the world where GPGPU libraries are splintered and proprietary, the largest stack is king.