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dhruvdh | 1 year ago

To add, AMD only makes _parts_ of an MI300X server.

It's like asking a tire manufacturer to give you a car for free.

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piskov|1 year ago

He explained the reasoning:

> Now, why don't they send me the two boxes? I understand when I was asking for firmware to be open sourced that that actually might be difficult for them, but the boxes are on eBay with a simple $$ cost. It was never about the boxes themselves, it was a test to see if software had any budget or power. And they failed super hard

protimewaster|1 year ago

I know this is someone else's reasoning, so you can't answer this question, but, doesn't this just test if they want to spend the budget on this specific thing?

If I ask a company for a $100,000 grant, and they're not willing, it doesn't seem like correct logic to assume that means they don't have the budget for it. Maybe they just don't want to spend $100,000 on me.

Why does this mean they don't have a budget or power?

latchkey|1 year ago

"and they failed" from his PoV... but not from us looking at things from the other side of the table.

wmf|1 year ago

Chip vendors regularly send out free hardware to software developers. In this case I don't think the cost is the issue; AMD simply doesn't want what Geohot is offering.

imtringued|1 year ago

Considering that AMD is only really supporting their datacenter GPUs with ROCm, this is the worst possible response. It means compute on AMD GPUs is only meant for the elite of the elite and forever out of reach for the average consumer and that Nvidia is not only outcompeting AMD on quality but also on cost.