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[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

If anyone's holding a copy of this repo as of its last published state before the rollback hit me up, I'd love to have a copy of it stashed away to play with.

git bundle should be able to dump the entire repo as a single archive if you have a cloned copy sitting somewhere on disk.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 month ago (3 children)

AMD Doing everything they can to make sure Intel and nVidia stay on top.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, it does say that Nvidia does not allow a translation layer like this.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Nvidia may be using an EULA to try and make people not use a translation layer, but if the EULA doesn't apply or the consequences of breaking it don't prevent you continuing then what Nvidia wants means diddly.

I don't use CUDA or Nvidia so I don't know but Google release Android Studio and have an EULA saying you can't do bla bla bla. But Android Studio is open source so if I don't use their binary and compile it myself then (as far as I know) their EULA doesn't apply (only the open source license used before they added an EULA on top of it for distribution).

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

An EULA is an End User License Agreement. It has no legal authority over a customer who does not even use an nvidia product, let alone a company.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Perhaps not even when you use an Nvidia product like if I buy Nvidia hardware but don't use their software (i.e. use open source drivers instead). I don't know enough about CUDA to say if you're not using Nvidia software (normally, the topic discusses a reverse-engineered one which doesn't infringe on Nvidia's copyright of their software).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] sugar_in_your_tea 11 points 1 month ago

No, but that's not AMD's fault.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not in reliability...

But they're probably still selling more CPUs to your average buyer who always buys Intel, doesn't read tech news and never even heard about the controversy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

And they're still somehow generating twice the revenue with Xeons vs. what AMD does with EPYCs. Who keeps buying all these Xeons!?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

This is a short term loss for a potential long term improvement. By eliminating dependency on translation APIs they can force the use of more open solutions like oneAPI which is even getting buy-in from companies like Imagination.

Keeping cuda alive is a bad idea.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)