> I don't think you understand just how insanely difficult it is to break into that market.
You're right, I have no clue nor have I ever tried myself.
> Even with apple money or something like that, it's a losing prospect because in the time it'll take you to get up and off the ground (which is FOREVER) your competition will crush you.
This I find hard to believe, do you have a source or reference for that claim? Companies with that amount of cash are hardly going to be crushed by competition be it direct or indirect. Anyway, I'm talking more about the Intels and AMDs of this world.
We have very lacklustre efforts from players I won't name <cough Intel> with their Zluda library (https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA) which I got REALLY excited about, until I read the README.txt. Four contributors, last commit early 2021.
ZLUDA is a library written by a hobbyist. The comparison you are looking for is oneAPI. They don't have the messaging down, but Intel is good at software.
We really really tried to use oneAPI, for FPGA, working with intel directly.
Every release would completely change some approach requiring restructuring. The only card with “free” compatibility was discontinued the week after we bought them, and the drivers stopped working on the same OS that oneAPI required.
Constantly encountered showstopper bugs that led us to conclude that nobody outside Intel was using it. Some of them appeared to be live-patched on their Devcloud.
Documentation was - reasonably good. But every few months Intel would move or restructure documentation links such that it was impossible to persistenly store a link to a useful document.
Intel may be good at software - but they are utterly crap at actually maintaining a consistent ecosystem that isn’t painful to try and follow.
You're right, I have no clue nor have I ever tried myself.
> Even with apple money or something like that, it's a losing prospect because in the time it'll take you to get up and off the ground (which is FOREVER) your competition will crush you.
This I find hard to believe, do you have a source or reference for that claim? Companies with that amount of cash are hardly going to be crushed by competition be it direct or indirect. Anyway, I'm talking more about the Intels and AMDs of this world.
We have very lacklustre efforts from players I won't name <cough Intel> with their Zluda library (https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA) which I got REALLY excited about, until I read the README.txt. Four contributors, last commit early 2021.
Why, oh why, is it this bad?