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183 points spacebanana7 | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.2s | 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.

1. dachworker ◴[] No.43548746[source]
Another possible reason might be outreach. NVIDIA spends big money on getting people to use their products. I have worked at two HPC centers and at both we had NVIDIA employees stationed there, whose job it was to help us get the most out of the hardware. Besides that, they also organize Hackatrons and they have dedicated software developer programs for each common application, be it LLMs, Weather Prediction or Protein Folding, not to mention dedicated libraries for pretty much every domain.