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by atq2119 1996 days ago
Agreed. Now to be fair, the acquisition is also what helped the company survive because it got them the console business. So it's not like it was completely botched.

They screwed up majorly with software, and they may have the same problem with an FPGA acquisition as well. AMD failed big time to capitalize on GPUs the way Nvidia did, and that's really almost entirely down to lack of good software solutions. There's ROCm now and it seems plausible that the gap is going to narrow further with AMD GPUs deployed to big HPC clusters, but a gap remains.