Ask HN: Why hasn’t AMD made a viable CUDA alternative?

194 points by spacebanana7 - 30 Days, 14 Hours ago Hacker News

I appreciate developing ROCm into something competitive with CUDA would require a lot of work, both internally within AMD and with external contributions to the relevant open source libraries.

However the amount of resources at stake is incredible. The delta between NVIDIA's value and AMD's is bigger than the annual GDP of Spain. Even if they needed to hire a few thousand engineers at a few million in comp each, it'd still be a good investment.