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AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] JustUseMint@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Another common AMD W. So glad I got away from Nvidia. This will help my local work with LLMs nicely.

[–] Newtra@pawb.social 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'd say it's more like they're failing upwards. It's certainly good for AMD, but it seems like it happened in spite of their involvement, not because of it:

For reasons unknown to me, AMD decided this year to discontinue funding the effort and not release it as any software product. But the good news was that there was a clause in case of this eventuality: Janik could open-source the work if/when the contract ended.

AMD didn't want this advertised or released, and even canned this project despite it reaching better performance than the OpenCL alternative. I really don't get their thought process. It's surreal. Do they not want to support AI? Do they not like selling GPUs?

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I really don’t get their thought process. It’s surreal.

Maybe they see it as something that would undermine their effords in increasing ROCm/HIP adoption? (But why fund its development for two years then? I agree with you: It all seems so weird!)