The "no one cares" market is large enough to support the existence of many competitors. Many have OpenCL support as their only thing in common. That might let u

The "no one cares" market is large enough to support the existence of many competitors. Many have OpenCL support as their only thing in common. That might let us target older or cheap hardware in a cross-platform manner. I agree the competition mostly did it to themselves. I'll add Nvidia throwing GPU's at academics who built a lot of stuff on them. Classic strategy that goes back to IBM vs Burroughs.