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While Nvidia's strategic foresight explains why Nvidia is ahead, it doesn't quite capture why the challenge is not something that only AMD can or should tackle alone.

The 7,484+ companies who stand to benefit do not have a good way to split the bill and dogpile a problem that is nearly impossible to progress on without lots of partners adding their perspective via a breadth of use cases. This is why I'm building https://prizeforge.com.

Nvidia didn't do it alone. Industry should not expect or wait on AMD to do it alone. Waiting just means lighting money on fire right now. In return for support, industry can demand more open technology be used across AMD's stack, making overall competition better in response for making AMD competitive.



who is waiting? amd and apple were part of opencl consortium. cuda simply ran away with the prize. amd needs to match nvidia on software spend. that is/was the difference.


> amd needs to

It's right there. You're whole mentality is about how one company will fix a problem that they cannot inherently have the expertise to fix. Nvidia fixed that the slow way, building a consortium of partners. This is the mindset of dependents waiting for the world to drop benefits on them. If 7k companies stand to make trillions of dollars, which I hope they do with this level of capex, it makes zero sense to pretend AMD can or should do all the work or can do it as fast or as well. I'm building a new model and you're arguing for what the old model should do.




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