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Ask HN: Why hasn’t AMD made a viable CUDA alternative?

183 points spacebanana7 | 1 comments | 01 Apr 25 14:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source

I appreciate developing ROCm into something competitive with CUDA would require a lot of work, both internally within AMD and with external contributions to the relevant open source libraries.

However the amount of resources at stake is incredible. The delta between NVIDIA's value and AMD's is bigger than the annual GDP of Spain. Even if they needed to hire a few thousand engineers at a few million in comp each, it'd still be a good investment.

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echelon ◴[01 Apr 25 14:41 UTC] No.43547340[source]▶
Leadership. At the end of the day, the buck stops with leadership.

If they wanted to prioritize this, they would. They're simply not taking it seriously.

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spacebanana7 ◴[01 Apr 25 14:43 UTC] No.43547363[source]▶
I always thought of Lisa Su as an effective leader, but this does make me question it.
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1. setgree ◴[01 Apr 25 14:50 UTC] No.43547469[source]▶
I thought so too until I read a Stratechery interview that painted a pretty bad portrait of her time at Sony [0].

I tend to think that AMD looks well run when compared with Intel [1], but when you consider Nvidia as the relevant counterfactual [2], things don't look so good.

I wrote about this here [3].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40697341

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41446766

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39344815

[3] https://setharielgreen.com/blog/amd-also-seems-to-be-flounde...