Comment by Guthur
12 days ago
My theory is that someone came up with the bright idea of allowing more open source in the stack and that that would allow them to get it all done via crowd sourcing and on the cheap. But if true it was a quite naive view of how it might work.
If instead they said let's take the money we should invested in internal development and build an open developer community that will leverage our hardware to build a world class software stack it might have been a little better.
AMD has just never had good developer software. For ages the best BLAS on AMD was… Intel MKL, as long as you figured out how to dispatch the right kernels.
Actually, it could be really cool if everybody acted like AMD. The fact that Intel and Nvidia put out the best number libraries for free means you can’t sell a number crunching library!