>it should not be impossible to train your staff to use your layer instead. First, it's the classic chicken and egg problem. Why would you invest in a CUDA alt

>it should not be impossible to train your staff to use your layer instead. First, it's the classic chicken and egg problem. Why would you invest in a CUDA alternative when you're going to be using nvidia hardware anyway? Second, something can be not impossible but still quite difficult. As AMD and Intel have shown, creating a GPGPU API for your hardware that people want to use is not a trivial task and to date have not managed to do it. Lastly this must just be differences in our experiences with cooperate management, because mine has been that in general they would always prefer to spend on stuff over headcount if said stuff reduces the headcount required.