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AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source

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1045 points mfiguiere | 2 comments | 12 Feb 24 14:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.587s | source
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AndrewKemendo ◴[12 Feb 24 14:53 UTC] No.39345391[source]▶
ROCm is not spelled out anywhere in their documentation and the best answers in search come from Github and not AMD official documents

"Radeon Open Compute Platform"

https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/1628

And they wonder why they are losing. Branding absolutely matters.

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1. rtavares ◴[12 Feb 24 14:59 UTC] No.39345468[source]▶
Later in the same thread:

> ROCm is a brand name for ROCm™ open software platform (for software) or the ROCm™ open platform ecosystem (includes hardware like FPGAs or other CPU architectures).

> Note, ROCm no longer functions as an acronym.

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2. ametrau ◴[12 Feb 24 17:28 UTC] No.39347658[source]▶
>> Note, ROCm no longer functions as an acronym.

That is really dumb. Like LLVM.