alt Hacker NewsTo add, AMD only makes _parts_ of an MI300X server.
It's like asking a tire manufacturer to give you a car for free.
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He explained the reasoning:
> Now, why don't they send me the two boxes? I understand when I was asking for firmware to be open sourced that that actually might be difficult for them, but the boxes are on eBay with a simple $$ cost. It was never about the boxes themselves, it was a test to see if software had any budget or power. And they failed super hard
Chip vendors regularly send out free hardware to software developers. In this case I don't think the cost is the issue; AMD simply doesn't want what Geohot is offering.
Considering that AMD is only really supporting their datacenter GPUs with ROCm, this is the worst possible response. It means compute on AMD GPUs is only meant for the elite of the elite and forever out of reach for the average consumer and that Nvidia is not only outcompeting AMD on quality but also on cost.
Great analogy!
Just uploaded some pictures of how complex these machines really are...
https://imgur.com/gallery/dell-xe9860-amd-mi300x-bGKyQKr