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by izacus 919 days ago
Absolutely. You usually end up with software stack where NOTHING can be updated, most of the stuff is forked with custom patches and the learnings there aren't reusable elsewhere because the code is full of "// replace this with hardcoded constant 59843 because it prevents crash on HPC machine".

It's a good marketing metric, but probably contraproductive the AMDs longterm success in the field. They're spending engineering time building something they'll unlikely to be able to translate into other fields.