Comment by sigmoid10
3 days ago
>This is a management and leadership problem.
It's easy (and mostly correct) to blame management for this, but it's such a foundational issue that even if everyone up to the CEO pivoted on every topic, it wouldn't change anything. They simply don't have the engineering talent to pull this off, because they somehow concluded that making stuff open source means someone else will magically do the work for you. Nvidia on the other hand has accrued top talent for more than a decade and carefully developed their ecosystem to reach this point. And there are only so many talented engineers on the planet. So even if AMD leadership wakes up tomorrow, they won't go anywhere for a looong time.
Even top tier engineers can be found eventually. The problem is if you never even start.
Of course the specific disciplines need quite an investment into the knowledge of their workers, but it isn't anything insurmountable.
I wonder what would happen if they hired John Carmack to lead this effort.
He would probably be able to attract some really good hardware and driver talent.
Carmack has been traditionally anti-AMD nad pro-Nvidia (at least regarding GPUs) in the past. I don't know if they could convince him even with all the money in the world unless they fundamentally changed everything first.