alt Hacker NewsWhy? What is the point of focusing on something that seems to be a memory management solution when the memory management problem theoretically just went away?
That has been one of the big themes in GPU hardware since around 2010 era when AMD committed to ATI. Nvidia tried to solve the memory management problem in the software layer, AMD committed to doing it in hardware. Software was a better bet by around a trillion dollars so far, but if the hardware solutions have finally come to fruit then why the focus on ROCm?
I dunno. GPU programming and performance is above my pay grade. I assume the reason every GPU maker is investing in software is because they understand the problems to be solved and feel it's worth the investment to solve them. I like AMD because their Linux drivers are open source. I like Intel because all their stuff is Open Source. I like Nvidia notably less because none of their stuff is Open Source, not even the Linux drivers.