AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Sourcewww.phoronix.comexternal-linkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zipstable_diffusion@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinuxfurs@pawb.socialopensource@lemmy.mlhackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans Shatur ( @Shatur@lemmy.ml ) Linux@lemmy.ml • 8 months ago message-square16fedilinkarrow-up1330
arrow-up1330external-linkAMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Sourcewww.phoronix.com Shatur ( @Shatur@lemmy.ml ) Linux@lemmy.ml • 8 months ago message-square16fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zipstable_diffusion@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinuxfurs@pawb.socialopensource@lemmy.mlhackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans
minus-square Atemu ( @Atemu@lemmy.ml ) linkfedilink1•8 months agoBy funding an API-compatible product, they are giving CUDA legitimacy as a common API. I can absolutely understand AMD not wanting a competitors invention and walled-off product to be anything resembling an industry standard.
minus-square conciselyverbose ( @conciselyverbose@kbin.social ) linkfedilink0•8 months agoIt already has legitimacy. It’s their hardware that doesn’t, despite the decent raw flops and high memory.
By funding an API-compatible product, they are giving CUDA legitimacy as a common API. I can absolutely understand AMD not wanting a competitors invention and walled-off product to be anything resembling an industry standard.
It already has legitimacy. It’s their hardware that doesn’t, despite the decent raw flops and high memory.