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> I'm really rooting for AMD to break the CUDA monopoly Personally I want Nvidia to break the x86-64 monopoly, with how amazing properly spec'd Nvidia cards ar

> I'm really rooting for AMD to break the CUDA monopoly Personally I want Nvidia to break the x86-64 monopoly, with how amazing properly spec'd Nvidia cards are to work with I can only dream of a world where Nvidia is my CPU too.

kuschkufan 3y ago
apt username
smcleod 3y ago
That’s already been done with ARM.
weebull 3y ago
> Personally I want Nvidia to break the x86-64 monopoly The one supplied by two companies?
- Keyframe 3y ago
  Maybe he meant homogeneity which Nvidia did try and tries with Arm.. but, on the other hand how wild would it be for Nvidia to enter x86-64 as well? It's probably never going to happen due to licensing if nothing else, lest we remember nForce chipset ordeal with intel legal.
  - paulmd 3y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Denver#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Denver#History
  - weebull 3y ago
    Indeed, but I think people forget that the reason AMD have a license in the first place was because Intel's customers in the early days required a second source for it's processors. Who owns the Cyrix x86 license these days?
- paulmd 3y ago
  "minor spelling/terminology mistake, activate the post-o-tron"
mickael-kerjean 3y ago
How would this a good idea? I am not very familiar with GPU programming but the small amount I've tried was nothing but pain a few years ago on linux, it was so bad that Torvald publicly used the f word in a very public event. That aside, CUDA seem like a great way to lock people in even further like AWS does with absolutely everything
- Qwertious 3y ago
  >I am not very familiar with GPU programming but the small amount I've tried was nothing but pain a few years ago on linux, it was so bad that Torvald publicly used the f word in a very public event. I'm pretty sure Torvalds was giving the finger over the subject of GPU drivers (which run on the CPU), not programming on the Nvidia GPU itself. Particularly, they namedropped Bumblebee (and maybe Optimus?) which was more about power-management and making Nvidia cooperate with a non-Nvidia integrated GPU than it was about the Nvidia GPU itself.
- whywhywhywhy 3y ago
  >CUDA seem like a great way to lock people in even further like AWS does with absolutely everything Lock people in to something that didn’t exist in a way any user could use before it existed? I get people hate CUDAs dominance but no one else was pushing this before CUDA and Apple+AMD completely fumbled OpenCL. Can’t hate on something good just because it’s successful and I can’t be angry the talent behind the success wanting to profit.

kuschkufan 3y ago

apt username

smcleod 3y ago

That’s already been done with ARM.

weebull 3y ago

> Personally I want Nvidia to break the x86-64 monopoly The one supplied by two companies?

Keyframe 3y ago
Maybe he meant homogeneity which Nvidia did try and tries with Arm.. but, on the other hand how wild would it be for Nvidia to enter x86-64 as well? It's probably never going to happen due to licensing if nothing else, lest we remember nForce chipset ordeal with intel legal.
- paulmd 3y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Denver#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Denver#History
- weebull 3y ago
  Indeed, but I think people forget that the reason AMD have a license in the first place was because Intel's customers in the early days required a second source for it's processors. Who owns the Cyrix x86 license these days?
paulmd 3y ago
"minor spelling/terminology mistake, activate the post-o-tron"

mickael-kerjean 3y ago

How would this a good idea? I am not very familiar with GPU programming but the small amount I've tried was nothing but pain a few years ago on linux, it was so bad that Torvald publicly used the f word in a very public event. That aside, CUDA seem like a great way to lock people in even further like AWS does with absolutely everything

Qwertious 3y ago
>I am not very familiar with GPU programming but the small amount I've tried was nothing but pain a few years ago on linux, it was so bad that Torvald publicly used the f word in a very public event. I'm pretty sure Torvalds was giving the finger over the subject of GPU drivers (which run on the CPU), not programming on the Nvidia GPU itself. Particularly, they namedropped Bumblebee (and maybe Optimus?) which was more about power-management and making Nvidia cooperate with a non-Nvidia integrated GPU than it was about the Nvidia GPU itself.
whywhywhywhy 3y ago
>CUDA seem like a great way to lock people in even further like AWS does with absolutely everything Lock people in to something that didn’t exist in a way any user could use before it existed? I get people hate CUDAs dominance but no one else was pushing this before CUDA and Apple+AMD completely fumbled OpenCL. Can’t hate on something good just because it’s successful and I can’t be angry the talent behind the success wanting to profit.