[blihp]

> The chip design itself should be the secret sauce. Not the tools you make the chip with.

The secret sauce is generally whatever gives one a competitive advantage. Businesses typically open things up when the want to reduce the cost of something and/or cause pain for someone else (i.e. killing their cash cow), not because they're benevolent and want to share.

> I challenge you to answer your own question in reverse: are any companies other than Nvidia embarking up AI/ML chipmaking in a closed fashion? There probably are, let's follow & watch them.

Isn't Google's floorplanning work closed source? https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/04/chip-design-with-deep-rein...

[andrepd]

The GP said nothing about "benevolence", he was arguing it is in the interest of NVidia

[blihp]

I suspect they would disagree with what's in their best interest. Most large businesses (especially nVidia) operate with a zero-sum mindset: they're not winning unless someone else is losing. To them, sharing information when not absolutely necessary is losing.