Comment by latchkey
2 months ago
Trying to find fault over UDNA is hilarious, they literally can't win with you.
My business model is to support viable alternatives. If someone else comes along and develops something that looks viable and there is customer demand for it, I'll deploy it.
You totally lost me at having more hope with Intel. I'm not seeing it. Gaudi 3 release was a nothing burger and is only recently deployed on IBM Cloud. Software is the critical component and if developers can't get access to the hardware, nobody is going to write software for it.
I fixed some autocorrect typos that were in my comment. I do not find fault with UDNA and I have no idea why you think I do. I find fault with the CDNA/RDNA split. UDNA is what AMD should have done in the first place.
As for Gaudi 3, I think it needs to be scrapped and used as an organ donor for ARC. In particular, the interconnect should reused in ARC. That would be Intel’s best chance of becoming competitive with Nvidia.
As for AMD becoming competitive with Nvidia, their incompetence at software engineering makes me skeptical. They do not have enough people. They have the people that they do have divided into to many redundant things. They do not have their people doing good software engineering practices such as static analysis. They also work the people that they do have with long hours (or so I have read), which of course is going to result in more bugs. They need a complete culture change to have any chance of catching up to Nvidia on the software side of things.
As for Intel, they have a good software engineering culture. They just need to fix the hardware side of things and I consider that to be much less of a stretch than AMD becoming good at software engineering Their recent battlematrix announcement is a step in the right direction. They just need to keep improving their GPUs and add an interconnect to fulfill the role of nvlink.