How could they promise to fix something that didn't exist 10-16 years ago?
In my eyes, the incentives weren't there before. But, they sure are now!
In my eyes, the incentives weren't there before. But, they sure are now!
You can't build a software platform by just willing it into existence. It means sitting down with developers, writing documentation and support users. It means tackling use cases other than llama so that users feel confident in building the next greatest thing on your platform. At it is today, AMD will always be playing catch up and people will continue to push nvidia because the latest and greatest will be on Cuda.
I guess for those of spending money on real gpus for the last 10 years, nvidia was incentivized to take our money but amd wasn't.
Games, rendering and crypto.
If I was a hardware company, that's all that I would have focused on. Certainly AMD could have done better on the software/developer front, nobody is arguing that.
I tend to live in the present and what matters is what they are saying and doing today. You can choose to be pissed off about the past, or you can work towards the future.
Right now, they are cranking out ROCm releases on schedule, contributing to a bunch of AI open source projects, listening to crazy people like George Hotz and have released a GPU product that leapfrogs the H100 and is built on OAM-UBB, at 1/3 the FLOPS/$, while also promoting fast ethernet standards.
I'd call that a pretty good start.