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bigyabaitoday at 5:20 PM0 repliesview on HN

Counterpoint: Apple's opportunity to invest in GPGPU architectures was ~2017 when Apple Silicon was in it's design stages. Apple always knew they were surrendering a large market segment by depreciating CUDA and OpenCL, they just never knew how big the market segment would get. Their liquid cash is wasted mid-bubble, and waiting for it to pop is not a realistic timeline anymore.

Arguably, Apple isn't even in a boat right now. At least AMD and Intel both ship hardware that synergizes with CUDA - Apple jumped off that ship, their hardware doesn't even come up in infrastructure discussions where AMD, Intel and Nvidia are taken for granted.