Except that this same team built a similarly named software package for Nvidia GPUs as well. It’s bright researchers doing what they do best if you ask me.
Except that this other package also only came out last year and has contributed zero to Nvidia's current status. If AMD ever wants to be taken seriously in this market, they will need to start making their own software good instead of relying on "open source" in the mistaken belief that someone else will fix their bad code for free. Nvidia spent more than a decade hiring top talent and getting their proprietary software environment right before they really took off. And some of the older ML researchers here will certainly remember it wasn't pain-free either. But they didn't just turn the ship around, they turned it into a nuclear aircraft carrier that dominates the entire world.
Yeah honestly I’m dumbfounded why all these years AMD still doesn’t have an internal “code red” and get their developer experience up to par with CUDA.
Man if that is anything close to the truth, it would explain a lot and be pretty depressing. It would imply leadership doesn’t understand software at all, and considers it a liability rather than an asset.
It seems that AMD, like many other companies, doesn’t “get” software. It’s a cost-center, a nuisance, not really hard engineering, the community will take care of that, etc. It’s pretty ironic.
I found their acquisition of Xilinx (the FPGA company) to predict that they were going all in on a uniform FPGA / GPU / AI ecosystem, but… that didn’t seem to have yielded any integration benefits?
I’m genuinely dumbfounded by what’s up at AMD at this point.
