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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 | 1 comments | 12 Feb 24 14:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.214s | 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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slavik81 ◴[12 Feb 24 15:35 UTC] No.39345989[source]▶
That is intentional. We had to change the name. ROCm is no longer an acronym.
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1. AndrewKemendo ◴[12 Feb 24 16:20 UTC] No.39346664[source]▶
I assume you’re on the team if you’re saying “we”

Can you say why you had to change the name?