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by orbital-decay 807 days ago
What might that be, for example?

"Organizationally unable to make competent software, perfectly able to make great hardware" seems to be the common case with hardware companies, if not de facto standard. Exceptions are rare.
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viraptor 807 days ago
Apart from "trying to implement this will cost us more in CUDA API copying lawsuits then it could earn", I don't know.

But it's not just that they can't make competent software. It's that everyone tells them they should try, that it looks like a pile of money ready to pick up, that people try doing it on their own... and AMD does nothing. They're not even taking the chance to fail/succeed. Can you imagine that Lisa Su doesn't get asked about this at least once a week?

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nextaccountic 807 days ago
They are already trying to copy CUDA API with rocm and HIP. If this is lawsuit worthy, they may already be hit with a lawsuit at any moment.
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