183 points spacebanana7 | 1 comments | 01 Apr 25 14:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | 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. rinka_singh ◴[02 Apr 25 10:42 UTC] No.43555371[source]▶

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There's OpenCL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL - this BTW, also runs on NVIDIA GPUs too...

OpenCL is completely open (source) and so why wouldn't we, all of us, throw our weight behind OpenCL.

(no, I have no connection with them and have nothing to do with them, other than having learned a bit).

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