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> Apple is honestly the biggest competitor in terms of hardware and software ecosystem Are they? It's not that obvious that they could necessarily scale up the
by Wytwwww 3y ago
> Apple is honestly the biggest competitor in terms of hardware and software ecosystem
Are they? It's not that obvious that they could necessarily scale up their low-power integrated GPUs (as fast as they are) to be competitive in the datacentre. AMD and Intel at least are trying and have/are developing some products.
And I'm not sure about their software? What do they really have that Intel/AMD don't?
- dagmx 3y agoIn terms of hardware , they absolutely could scale up higher in the same way Nvidia does: more chips with interconnect on a blade. Given their power efficiency, they could just go wider and come out on top. And in terms of software, metal compute is the only real competitor to CUDA backends. Between their PyTorch backends, MPX, and large memory, a lot of ML engineers are going with a combo of Macs locally and NVIDIA in the cloud these days. Intel and AMD don’t factor in at all comparatively for ML use because Intel doesn’t have a GPU backend for most things people want, and AMD has repeatedly made a mess of rocm