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nnevatietoday at 3:11 AM3 repliesview on HN

Why is it called "ROCm” (with the strange capitalization) in the first place? This may sound silly, but in order to compete, every detail matters, including the name.


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slongfieldtoday at 3:19 AM

It used to stand for "[R]adeon [O]pen [C]o[m]pute", but since it's not affiliated with the Open Compute Project, they dropped the meaning of it a little while ago, and now it doesn't stand for anything.

dnauticstoday at 3:37 AM

presumably a reference to rocm/socm robots?

WanderPandatoday at 3:16 AM

This is so true! Shows a lack of care that usually doesn’t stop at just the naming