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By "Opening Up" they cement their leadership position. AI frameworks are already targeting CL, SPIR-V, etc. The low level details will fade and so will Nvidias
by sitkack 3y ago
By "Opening Up" they cement their leadership position. AI frameworks are already targeting CL, SPIR-V, etc. The low level details will fade and so will Nvidias api dominance.
The MI300 smokes the H100 yet here we are.
- incrudible 3y agoJust because they are a target doesn’t mean things just work. Historically, AMD hardware for GPGPU becomes obsolete well before the software landscape catches up. I am not going to risk my time and money finding out whether history repeats itself, just for a few potential FLOPS per dollar.
- sitkack 3y agoDon't disagree, but it is is nuts how AMD is leaving billions on the table by not finishing the project by writing the software.
- incrudible 3y agoEven if they finished it yesterday, it would take years to convince everyone that this time it will be worth investing in AMD, at which point the whole datacenter AI hype may already be over.
- sitkack 3y agoThe AI hype will not end. AMD just has to support transformers. OSS is already building it, at which point you can finetune an open weights model on an MI300. Nvidia is in the same place that Cisco and Sun were during the dot.com boom. People are just buying the mainstream think that works. It doesn't take years, it takes an accountant.