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Diving into Qualcomm's Upcoming Adreno X2 GPU with Eric Demers

24 pointsby rbanffylast Monday at 11:10 AM11 commentsview on HN

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bfrogyesterday at 12:17 PM

If only Qualcomm knew how to do software more than lawyer.

david-gpuyesterday at 11:53 AM

Shortly after this interview, Eric announced that he is leaving Qualcomm.

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jonkoopsyesterday at 12:05 PM

Surely it will work properly on Linux with upstreamed drivers, right? Right?

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rayesterday at 10:26 AM

If we had a vibrant open source TPU interface, inference / training stack... what would be left of Nvidia?

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speed_spreadyesterday at 1:15 PM

This guy sure knows his Poutine. Unfortunately nothing described in the article is relevant without proper Linux support which is still unlikely despite Qualcomm's repeated pledges.

andrewstuartyesterday at 10:01 AM

What are their drivers like?

Fully open source? Unlikely methinks.

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dingiyesterday at 1:05 PM

What's the point? They are e-waste as soon as they leave the factory.