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>>tin7in+(OP)
Its really time for some competition. Either AMD or some chinese company like 'more threads' need to speed up and get something on the market to break the Nvidia dominance. Nvidia is showing already some nasty typical evil behavior that has to be stopped. I know not easy with fully booked partners at Samsung/tmct/etc

>>holodu+Hg
https://tinygrad.org is trying something around this; currently working on getting AMD GPUs to get on MLPerf. Info on what they're up to / why is mostly here - https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2023/05/24/the-t... - though there are some older interesting bits too.

>>ukd1+7h
AMD / Intel should be throwing them 10's or 100's millions (or jsut straight up human hours of work) to make that work. If / when it does it would be 10's or 100's of billions of (additional) market cap for them.

>>blitza+Do
Intel is very much putting its money where its mouth is with SyCL/OneApi. They are spending a lot of money and advancing a lot faster than AMD, and in many ways it's a better approach (focused on CUDA-style DSL but portable across hardware) rather than just another ecosystem.

(to their credit AMD is also getting serious lately, they put out a listing for like 30 ROCm developers a few weeks after geohot's meltdown, and they were in the process of doing a Windows release (previously linux-only) of ROCm with support for consumer gaming GPUs at the time as well. The message seems to have finally been received, it's a perennial topic here and elsewhere and with the obvious shower of money happening, maybe management was finally receptive to the idea that they needed to step it up.)