Intel are on top?
Comment on AMD lawyers claw back CUDA compatibility layer ZLUDA
ms_lane@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
AMD Doing everything they can to make sure Intel and nVidia stay on top.
datelmd5sum@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
No, but that’s not AMD’s fault.
zik@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Not in reliability…
But they’re probably still selling more CPUs to your average buyer who never even heard about the controversy.
datelmd5sum@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
And they’re still somehow generating twice the revenue with Xeons vs. what AMD does with EPYCs. Who keeps buying all these Xeons!?
Static_Rocket@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This is a short term loss for a potential long term improvement. By eliminating dependency on translation APIs they can force the use of more open solutions like oneAPI which is even getting buy-in from companies like Imagination.
Keeping cuda alive is a bad idea.
boreengreen@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Well, it does say that Nvidia does not allow a translation layer like this.
tabular@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Nvidia may be using an EULA to try and make people not use a translation layer, but if the EULA doesn’t apply or the consequences of breaking it don’t prevent you continuing then what Nvidia wants means diddly.
I don’t use CUDA or Nvidia so I don’t know but Google release Android Studio and have an EULA saying you can’t do bla bla bla. But Android Studio is open source so if I don’t use their binary and compile it myself then (as far as I know) their EULA doesn’t apply (only the open source license used before they added an EULA on top of it on distribution).
DarkThoughts@fedia.io 5 weeks ago
An EULA is an End User License Agreement. It has no legal authority over a customer who does not even use an nvidia product, let alone a company.
tabular@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Perhaps not even when you use an Nvidia product like if I buy Nvidia hardware but don’t use their software (i.e. use open source drivers instead). I don’t know enough about CUDA to say if you’re not using Nvidia software (normally, the topic discusses a reverse-engineered one which doesn’t infringe on Nvidia’s copyright of their software).