• BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38·
    10 months ago

    This is a big deal as it kills one of the major vendor lock-ins nVidia has. Gives people much more choice in the products they can buy to achieve their tasks.

    • Zarxrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      10 months ago

      “AMD decided this year to discontinue funding the effort and not release it as any software product”.

      So AMD decided that it wasn’t worthwhile and so the developer released it on his own. AMDs decisions are just baffling. You still can’t even install Pytorch for rocm on Windows.

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        10 months ago

        So AMD decided that it wasn’t worthwhile and so the developer released it on his own. AMDs decisions are just baffling.

        AMD may have done this to avoid legal entanglements. It allows the solution to exist without a full endorsement from AMD and also lets the open source community drive it to where it needs to be as far as features and functionality.

        • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          10 months ago

          my thoughts too - now I really hope this project has a future in the open source env and it’s not just an ambitious endeavor

    • BloodSlut@lemmy.worldEnglish
      82·
      10 months ago

      novideo’s existence setting the bar so low that im giving kudos to a traded for-profit company