Submitted 1 year ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to technology@lemmy.world
Took long enough - at a certain point Nvidia’s pricing just to get CUDA doesn’t make sense when compared to the cost of just investing in ROCm and OneAPI.
All they had to do was find the right balance, but apparently they decided to see how much money the printer could make…
I keep hearing how good AI is at coding these days, why can’t they just use it to rewrite all the model and library code up to full AMD support?
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Large companies that are themselves (near) monopolies see the risk of only having one supplier. This should be evident to all spectators.
Nuh, free markut regulgates itself. Smol govment only way (except for suppressing the minorities).
I mean, this is kinda the free market at work? Nvidia built and dominated a market, and AMD and Intel are pouring billions in to give people an alternative which will drive prices down?
True, but this will also help boost alternatives to nvidia for consumers too I'd wager, and with that probably also better Linux support along with it.
I very much hope this is a success for AMD, because for years I’ve wanted to use their chips for analysis and frankly the software interface is so far behind Nvidia it’s ridiculous, and because of that none of the tools I want to use support it.
Attached is my review of AMD:
If we’re nitpicking about AMD: another thing I dislike about them is their smaller presence in the research space compared to their competitors. Both Intel and NVIDIA throw money into risky new ideas like crazy (NVM, DPUs, GPGPUs, DLSS). Meanwhile, AMD seems to only hop in once a specific area is well established to have an existing market.
For consumer stuff, AMD is definitely my go-to. But it occurs to me that we need companies that are willing to fund research in Academia. Even if they don’t have a super good track record of getting profitable results.
I would kill to run my models on my own AMD linux server.
I haven’t super looked into it but I’m not interested in playing the GPU game with gamers so if AMD can do a Tesla equivalent with gobs of RAM and no display hardware I’d be all about it.
Here’s an article about the chips for those uninterested in business crap: servethehome.com/amd-instinct-mi300x-gpu-and-mi30…
Thanks, I usually submit biz related stuff here, hardware related stuff to c/hardware@lemmy.ml. It’s not very active but I haven’t really found a good replacement to r/hardware on Lemmy.
I see.
On another note, the way you linked the sub doesn’t work for me, should be: !hardware@lemmy.ml
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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odium@programming.dev 1 year ago
Who is that for? I would like to give the middle finger to 75% of those companies.
NateNate60@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is Linus Torvalds, creator, namesake, and supreme dictator of the Linux kernel. It’s from a video of him talking about his frustrations in working with NVIDIA. Essentially, NVIDIA treats Linux like a second-class citizen and its components don’t play nicely with the rest of the Linux code base. In this scene, Torvalds shows his middle finger and says “NVIDIA, fuck you!”.
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
linus torvalds(linux kernel) response to nvidia (who consistently treats linux as a nobody for consumers)