Ask HN: Why hasn't AMD made a viable CUDA alternative?

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		Ask HN: Why hasn't AMD made a viable CUDA alternative?
		14 points by spacebanana7 6 minutes ago \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 6 comments

		I appreciate developing ROCm into something competitive with CUDA would require a lot of work, both internally within AMD and with external contributions to the relevant open source libraries. However the amount of resources at stake is incredible. The delta between NVIDIA's value and AMD's is bigger than the annual GDP of Spain. Even if they needed to hire a few thousand engineers at a few million in comp each, it'd still be a good investment.

The answer is in the question, because if they had the foresight to do such a thing the tech would already be here, instead they thought 1 dimensionally about their product, were part of the group that fumbled OpenCL and now they're a decade behind playing catch up.

A good group can catch up significantly in 2 years. They will still be behind, but if they are cheaper (or just you can buy them) that would still go a long way.

Leadership. At the end of the day, the buck stops with leadership.

If they wanted to prioritize this, they would. They're simply not taking it seriously.

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