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And indeed more than succeed, they invented x86_64.

>>ianlev+(OP)
And indeed more than succeed, they invented x86_64.

If AMD invented the analogous to x86_64 for CUDA, this would increase competition and progress in AI by some huge fraction.

>>ianlev+(OP)
x86_64's win was helped by Intel's Itanium misstep. AMD can't bank on Nvidia making a mistake, and Nvidia seems content with incremental changes to CUDA, contrasted with Intel's 32-bit to 64-bit transition. It is highly unlikely that AMD can find and exploit a similar chink in the amor against CUDA.

>>sangno+X6
If they're content with incremental changes to CUDA then it doesn't cost much to keep updated compatibility and do it as quickly as any users actually adopt changes.

>>stcred+Y2
Only works if NVidia misteps and creates the Itanium version of CUDA.

>>pjmlp+Md
You don't think someone would welcome the option to have more hardware buying options, even if the "Itanium version" didn't happen?

>>stcred+Y2
Why "if only". Intel had been around forever when AMD showed up. CUDA isn't unassailable