alt Hacker NewsYears. They neglected ROCm for soooo long. I have friends who worked there 5+ years ago who tried desperately to convince execs to invest more in ROCm and failed. You had to have your head stuck pretty deep in the sand back then to not see that AI was becoming an important workload.
I would love AMD to be competitive. The entire industry would be better off if NVIDIA was less dominant. But AMD did this to themselves. One hundred percent.
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Not even AI. My 5 years old APU is completely neglected by AMD ROCm efforts. So I also can't use it in Blender! I feel quite betrayed to be honest. How is such a basic thing not possible, not to mention years later?
Look where Apple Silicon managed going in the same time frame...
Because of this, I would never consider another AMD GPU for a long time. Gaming isn't everything I want my GPU doing. How do they keep screwing this up? Why isn't it their top priority?
It would be very helpful to deeply understand the truth behind this management failing. The actual players involved, and their thinking. Was it truly a blind spot? Or was it mistaken priorities? I mean, this situation has been so obvious and tragic, that I can't help feeling like there is some unknown story-behind-the-story. We'll probably never really know, but if we could, I wouldn't spend quite as much time wearing a tinfoil hat.