[jpz]

They seem to be pushing the barrier on innovation on GPU compute. It seems a little unfair to call that pathetic, whatever strategic reasons they have to find OpenCL unappetising (which simply enables their sole competitor in truth.)

Their decision making seems rational, of course it's not ideal if you're consumer. We would like the ability to bid off NVidia with AMD Radeon.

Convergence to a standard has to be driven by the market, but it's impossible to drive NVidia there because they are the dominant player and it is 100% not in their interests.

It doesn't mean they're a bad company. They are rational actors.

[my123]

With nvc++, they are converging towards a standardised source code standard: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/accelerating-standard-c-wi...

However, this notably doesn't cover binaries, which are GPU vendor specific in that case, so AMD for example would have to provide a C++ compiler implementing stdpar for GPUs targeted to their hardware.