[chii]

so why isn't there a windows competitor today for the consumer PC market? Surely it's a bigger market than ai chips.

The answer is that the entrenchment of the tools, software and inertia of a defacto standard is what prevents new entrants. The time to stop it is to nip it in the bud. Prevent monopoly from forming, rather than hope that after the monopoly forms, some competitor will break it.

[dcgudeman]

What do you suggest? Kneecap the most competent company executing in AI hardware to help laggards compete?

[chii]

nobody is kneecapping anyone. The ask is to change CUDA into a standard for which nvidia is one implementation.

instead, what you have today is this:

> You may not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the output generated using SDK elements for the purpose of translating such output artifacts to target a non-NVIDIA platform.

from https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/eula/index.html#limitations section 8