On: AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source

[iforgotpassword]

Someone built the same a while ago for Intel gpus, I think even still the old pre-Xe ones. With arc/xe on the horizon, people had the same question: why isn't Intel sponsoring this or even building their own. It was speculated that this might get them into legal hot water with Nvidia, Google VS. Oracle was brought up, etc...

[my123 → iforgotpassword]

They financed the prior iteration of Zluda: https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA?tab=readme-ov-file#faq

but then stopped

[formerly_proven → my123]

> [2021] After some deliberation, Intel decided that there is no business case for running CUDA applications on Intel GPUs.

oof

[Cheer2171 → formerly_proven]

Are you freaking kidding me!?!? Fire those MBAs immediately.

[AtheistOfFail → formerly_proven]

> After two years of development and some deliberation, AMD decided that there is no business case for running CUDA applications on AMD GPUs.

Oof x2

[iforgotpassword → formerly_proven]

That's an oof indeed. Are AMD and Intel really that delusional, ie "once we get our own version of Cuda right everybody will just rewrite all their software to make use of it", or do they know something we mere mortals don't?

[Qwertious → iforgotpassword]

That sounds more like "if we implement CUDA then we'll just be Nvidia-but-worse, we won't gain enough marketshare to break even let alone profit."

[garaetjjte → iforgotpassword]

Maybe their lawyers are afraid of another round of "are APIs copyrightable"?