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minus-squareExtendedDeadline@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months ago They will have to start banning AMD Fortunately for AMD, their software is not yet good enough to leverage those tflops effectively. It’ll kind of suck when that day does happen, though, because it probably would lead to a ban.
minus-squaredotjzzz@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoSoftware stack is completely useless for datacenters. Nobody is using off-the-shelf solutions. Google, Amazon, Microsoft are all building custom chips, you think they need AMD software stack if they bought MI300? All they need is close-to-metal access via minimal driver.
Fortunately for AMD, their software is not yet good enough to leverage those tflops effectively. It’ll kind of suck when that day does happen, though, because it probably would lead to a ban.
Software stack is completely useless for datacenters. Nobody is using off-the-shelf solutions.
Google, Amazon, Microsoft are all building custom chips, you think they need AMD software stack if they bought MI300?
All they need is close-to-metal access via minimal driver.