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Re: AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M

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Post by lostmsu » Fri, Jul 12, 2024, 2:51 PM UTC

latchkey wrote: post #280

lostmsu wrote: post #274

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Considering people mostly bitch about AMD driver bugs and their GPU computing-related SDKs, I don't think buying a high-level AI sweat shop is going to fix their issues. I am not even sure if in the entire Silo AI you could find 5 people who understand AMD GPU assembly code and can effectively debug generated kernels. They'd get more value offering $500k+ comp to a few people from https://handmadecities.com/

> I don't think buying a high-level AI sweat shop is going to fix their issues... They'd get more value... It is a wonder why you aren't the CEO.

That's all right: she is 20 or so years older, I'm still on track to get there.

Re: AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M

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Post by p_j_w » Fri, Jul 12, 2024, 9:39 PM UTC

blackhawkC17 wrote: post #171

p_j_w wrote: post #162

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>After accounting for all these, an SV, NYC, Seattle, etc., engineer ends up with far more disposable income than their EU counterpart. I said it narrows the gap, not closes it. > https://www.statista.com/statistics/725764/oecd-household-di ... Your link is behind a paywall, I can't view that data.

Point noted, Wikipedia breaks down the data better - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c... .

Housing is notably not included here. Further, while it says government or non-profit provided health care and educated are included in the incomes for countries where it's available, the countries where it is NOT available don't show a reduced disposable income to pay for these things. These data do not show what you think they show. They already show a smaller gap than you had originally implied, and as I stated earlier, that gap is going to narrow substantially when the rest of these factors are taken into account.

Re: AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M

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Post by Narhem » Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 9:48 PM UTC

xzel wrote: post #212

Narhem wrote: post #176

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No nvidia makes great tooling. Like as a startup if I had to pick a development tool AmD fails repeatedly while nvida tooling is like matlab level of usefulness. Those companies have money to make ‘nice’ things which open source software doesn’t have the time to do. For 100m you could probably make some pretty sweet clones if amd is hiring anybody to man that position.

I’m not sure if I’m in the minority here but Matlab levels of tooling is an insult. Their guides were always two or three steps before being useful. Just enough to make you think whatever they were selling would solve your problems but never enough when really building a solution.

Before visual studio code the laggyness of eclipse always pushed me to use notepad++. Which in turn pushed me away from Java.

Re: AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M

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Post by talldayo » Sun, Jul 14, 2024, 1:06 AM UTC

philistine wrote: post #268

throwaway2037 wrote: post #251

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> x86 is never going to reclaim the crown of most important architecture To be clear, I assume you are including 32-bit and 64-bit, e.g., x86-64. I am surprised by this comment. To me, x86 won the architecture battle because of Linux (and less Microsoft Windows). Nothing is so cheap to deploy and maintain as a Linux server that runs x86-64 procs. Yes, I know you can buy single board computers, but x86 wins in the tri…

ARM. Every second that passes, for each person that is born that will use a computer, at least two people who will never use a computer is born. Those two people will own a phone though, and that phone will have an ARM chip. As time goes on, more and more ARM chips will take roles traditionally taken by x86-64. Hell, ARM is already the best-selling architecture. Laws of scale will dictate that investments in x86-64 w…

There's a small hitch. Unless China is allowed to directly pilfer ARM IP, they're going to pull off a RISC-V (or homegrown ISA) transition at the drop of a hat. And if American phone manufacturers are intent on diversifying, they very well might too; there's little forcing you to use ARM as your RISC ISA on Android or iOS. Competitive ARM cores don't grow on trees, and the licensing fee does't make it very attractive to compete unless you have a de-facto ISA license like Apple or Nvidia. And both of those companies have dabbled in RISC-V too. The intent to usurp ARM's throne has been clear ever since Nvidia was blocked from outright buying it in it's entirety.

Look at it this way; Apple can design their own cores whether they use ARM or RISC-V, and control the software from top to bottom either way. Nvidia's already shipping RISC-V microcontrollers to cut down on manufacturing margins, and without better options the rest of the world might follow. ARM's dominance is only possible if better RISC options don't exist; and for anyone that's not ARM the idea of IP serfdom sounds awful.