Comment by stefan_
16 days ago
Well geez, Intel might have amazingly bad management but where on the scale do we put AMD not giving any fucks about challenging the CUDA monopoly for going on 10 years now?
Instead they put mediocre people on things like OpenCL which even university students forced to use the mess could tell was going nowhere.
AMD basically did not have any money from 2010 until 2020. They were teetering near death. No money for r&d no money for new features in their gpus no money no money no money. There excavator architecture was extremely foolish trying to support multiple instruction dispatches with only 1 ALU and FPU per core! This was corrected with Ryzen and the last 4 years they have been able to pay off their massive debts, especially with the 5000 series!
Going forward I expect we will see much more innovation from them because now they have some spare cash to spend on real innovations hopefully in hardware AND software! Note that Intel is much worse than AMD in software!