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Su has been CEO of AMD for nearly 10 years. Does not contribute to my confidence. Of course with the AI goldrush they're paying a lot of lip-service to ROCm (p
by kkielhofner 3y ago
Su has been CEO of AMD for nearly 10 years. Does not contribute to my confidence.
Of course with the AI goldrush they're paying a lot of lip-service to ROCm (pumping stock price?) but a couple of examples:
1) They just added official support to ROCm for the top-end consumer card they released over a year ago. Meanwhile in CUDA land Nvidia back-ported support to CUDA 11.8 well before Ada Lovelace/Hopper even launched. Worked with everything out there day of launch. Even newest CUDA 12 and their drivers support anything with Nvidia stamped on it from the past 6-7 years. Literally everything.
2) Just check their repos, Docker Hub, etc. It's embarrassing for them. They used Python 3.10 for ROCm 5.7 because its basically the bare-minimum/standard for any broader AI, ML, etc project. Oh neat, they released ROCm 6 to support their year old ~ $1000 card! Python 3.9? Ubuntu 20.04? What the hell? Pytorch "hello world" usable but almost nothing else even runs.
The further you dig the more clownish it gets.