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by ein0p 469 days ago
While I agree with you in theory, the practice of this has been somewhat less optimistic. So far AMD hardware _doesn't even work_. That's why Geohot had to write his own stack. Moreover, it also doesn't sell - there's maybe one or two obscure cloud providers for it. No major cloud provider has it, or is going to have it anytime soon, until software and driver problems are figured out. Why? Simple - they have no interest whatsoever in disappointing their customers and/or spending all of their support engineering time on supporting obscure GPUs that they'll have to charge less for in order for them to see uptake at all. Even Intel (!) has a more robust offering with Gaudi 2/3, and they're having a heck of a time getting large deployments anywhere outside Intel Developer Cloud.