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To add, AMD only makes _parts_ of an MI300X server. It's like asking a tire manufacturer to give you a car for free.
by dhruvdh 2y ago
To add, AMD only makes _parts_ of an MI300X server.
It's like asking a tire manufacturer to give you a car for free.
- latchkey 2y agoGreat analogy! Just uploaded some pictures of how complex these machines really are... https://imgur.com/gallery/dell-xe9860-amd-mi300x-bGKyQKr https://imgur.com/gallery/dell-xe9860-amd-mi300x-bGKyQKr
- piskov 2y agoHe explained the reasoning: > Now, why don't they send me the two boxes? I understand when I was asking for firmware to be open sourced that that actually might be difficult for them, but the boxes are on eBay with a simple $$ cost. It was never about the boxes themselves, it was a test to see if software had any budget or power. And they failed super hard
- latchkey 2y ago"and they failed" from his PoV... but not from us looking at things from the other side of the table.
- protimewaster 2y agoI know this is someone else's reasoning, so you can't answer this question, but, doesn't this just test if they want to spend the budget on this specific thing? If I ask a company for a $100,000 grant, and they're not willing, it doesn't seem like correct logic to assume that means they don't have the budget for it. Maybe they just don't want to spend $100,000 on me. Why does this mean they don't have a budget or power?
- KeplerBoy 2y agoHe assumes the software department wants to do this, which - yes - seems to be flawed logic on his side. Let's imagine he's indeed correct. He receives the hardware, get's hacking and solves all of AMDs problem, the stock surges and tinygrad becomes a major deep learning framework. That would be a collosal embarrassment for AMDs software department.
- rangestransform 2y agoThey should be more interested in selling product than ego
- latchkey 2y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/RealTwitterAccounts/comments/zrfhdg/superstar_programer_quits_his_12_weeks_twitter/ https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTwitterAccounts/comments/zrfhdg...
- saagarjha 2y agoFWIW that login panel is controlled by a single feature flag
- wmf 2y agoChip vendors regularly send out free hardware to software developers. In this case I don't think the cost is the issue; AMD simply doesn't want what Geohot is offering.
- imtringued 2y agoConsidering that AMD is only really supporting their datacenter GPUs with ROCm, this is the worst possible response. It means compute on AMD GPUs is only meant for the elite of the elite and forever out of reach for the average consumer and that Nvidia is not only outcompeting AMD on quality but also on cost.