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What is the alternative? Build their own API that expects developers who have been burned by AMD again and again to provide dedicated support for? Good luck wit
by incrudible 3y ago
What is the alternative? Build their own API that expects developers who have been burned by AMD again and again to provide dedicated support for? Good luck with that. CUDA is already entrenched, NVIDIA hardware is already deployed, so as a developer I can’t not support it. Why would I then go out of my way for the single digit percentage of users that need AMD support?
- bri3d 3y agoI think they're betting that as NVIDIA hardware gets more expensive and harder to get, especially in the datacenter, there's now an opportunity to entice developers to take on the pain of porting to HIP/ROCm. Nobody cares about "users" in this case, it's bespoke applications running on bespoke infrastructure at scale.
- incrudible 3y agoAMD is just as fabless as NVIDIA, both compete for production capacity, and eventually TSMC etc will get around to producing more chips than the market will want to buy.