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Re: The tiny corp raised $5.1M

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Post by nacs »

patentatt wrote: post #4

If they can achieve something competitive with CUDA for $5m, why hasn't AMD done it yet?

AMD/ATI has always been terrible at drivers/software for their GPUs going back decades.

It’s really as simple as that and it still hasn’t changed so nvidia is dominating them in AI as a result.

Re: The tiny corp raised $5.1M

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Post by crpowers »

patentatt wrote: post #4

If they can achieve something competitive with CUDA for $5m, why hasn't AMD done it yet?

AMD has been tackling exactly the wrong problems. They poured their money into a porting solution for developers to take CUDA code and run it on their GPUs. I guess they didn't find it worth it to really compete. I doubt it's about being able to tackle this problem with $5m, but rather convincing the company they can win.

Re: The tiny corp raised $5.1M

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Post by bloggie »

j0hnyl wrote: post #13

what does he mean by "tape out" chips?

When transforming the logic gate design of a chip into the lithographic plates used for chip production, the plates were originally made by applying tape to create the photo masks. The name stuck and it now means to move a semiconductor project from the design phase to the manufacturing phase.

Re: The tiny corp raised $5.1M

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Post by 1letterunixname »

nacs wrote: post #11
patentatt wrote: post #4

If they can achieve something competitive with CUDA for $5m, why hasn't AMD done it yet?

AMD/ATI has always been terrible at drivers/software for their GPUs going back decades. It’s really as simple as that and it still hasn’t changed so nvidia is dominating them in AI as a result.

Their stuff was garbage back when there was VLB.

Re: The tiny corp raised $5.1M

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Post by 1letterunixname »

Mistletoe wrote: post #8

Can anyone comment on the TinyBox they are taking preorders for? The tinybox 738 FP16 TFLOPS 144 GB GPU RAM 5.76 TB/s RAM bandwidth 30 GB/s model load bandwidth (big llama loads in around 4 seconds) AMD EPYC CPU 1600W (one 120V outlet) Runs 65B FP16 LLaMA out of the box (using tinygrad, subject to software development risks) $15,000

There's a reason no one uses ATI GPUs in datacenters. Their dev support is shit.

Don't waste your money.

Buy 6 RTX 4090's and a decent ECC-memory server, and call it a day.

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