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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.)