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minus-squareAtemulinkfedilink42•1 year 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-squareconciselyverboselinkfedilink-1•edit-21 year 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.