OpenCL was a decent effort, but without Nvidia on board it was IMO too little too late - by the time that became a thing, NVDA already was entrenched in the acc

OpenCL was a decent effort, but without Nvidia on board it was IMO too little too late - by the time that became a thing, NVDA already was entrenched in the accelerator compute software space. Even worse when Intel/AMD didn't offer a good story to also target CPU vector units with it - that would have created a strong enough ecosystem to target.