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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: 0.238s | 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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adra ◴[01 Apr 25 15:00 UTC] No.43547604[source]▶
Why, because 90% of her job is talking to and appeasing shareholders, grand standing with fat whales, and what else.. what do you think a CEO at these companies actually does? They aren't in the trenches of each subdivision nurturing and cracking whips. She likely attends a 2 hour briefing with a line item: CUDA parity project: on schedule release date not set
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1. fulladder ◴[01 Apr 25 17:39 UTC] No.43549531[source]▶
Fair points. I think the difference is that AMD has other businesses that are much larger than GPUs, whereas NVIDIA was always just about GPUs.