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Alexnet could not have been done on AMD, nope.

• dagmx 2y ago
  Please, this is just revisionism. There’s nothing inherent to AlexNet that relied on NVIDIA hardware or even software. It was just what happened to be available and most straightforward at the time. To say it wouldn’t have been possible on AMD is ludicrous and there is a pattern to your comments where you dismiss any other companies efforts or capabilities, but are quite happy to lay all the laurels on NVIDIA. The reality is that multiple companies and individuals got us to where we are, and multiple products could have done the same. That's not to take away from NVIDIA's success, it's well earned, but if you took them out of the equation, there's nothing that would have prevented the tech existing.
  • hnlmorg 2y ago
    The crux of the issue is this: > It was just what happened to be available and most straightforward at the time AMD made better hardware for a while and people wanted OpenCL to succeed. The reason why nvidia became dominant was because their competitors simply weren’t good enough for general purpose parallel compute. Would AI still have happened without CUDA? Almost certainly. However nvidia still had a massive role in shaping what it looks like today.
  • EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
    Many people here are heavily invested in NVDA stock, which certainly clouds the judgement.
    • dagmx 2y ago
      That’s my take away too, even though I’m invested myself. The discussion around them has transcended into mythology. Imho part of it is because GPUs themselves are so foreign to many people as a development target and so they’re not really as aware of the landscape