AMD Alveo V70 AI inference accelerator card

Post by ClumsyPilot » Wed, Jan 11, 2023, 11:22 PM UTC

vosper wrote: post #85

ClumsyPilot wrote: post #79

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> The idea that senior leadership at AMD is unaware.. Senior leadership at AMD isn't dumb. Lets try this with another company: The idea that leadership at Lehmon Brothers is unaware of the fact that they are trading subprime loans is absurd! The leadership isnt dumb The Idea that leadership at Being is unaware of safety issues with 737 Max is absurd! How could you suggest that anyone outside boesing understands bette…

The fact that a couple of other companies have had dumb leadership in no way proves that AMD's is dumb. You're essentially claiming that because Lehman and Boeing had dumb leadership, all senior leadership at all companies is dumb (because there's nothing linking AMD to these other companies except that they're all companies). And that is an absurd claim.

Post by BizarroLand » Thu, Jan 12, 2023, 10:21 PM UTC

vosper wrote: post #68

lostmsu wrote: post #66

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> AMD has finite resources, like any company, and they’ve been focusing on CPU/datacenter dominance Why can't large companies tap the investment market? E.g. they could sell bonds to fund it, borrow, etc.

Well they definitely can, and do. They have made the decision that the reward isn't worth the risk. The idea (not aiming at you here, you didn't say this) that senior leadership at AMD is unaware of NVIDIA's lead in this space, and haven't repeatedly considered whether to invest in competing, is absurd. Likewise the idea that anyone outside of AMD understands better than AMD does what it would take in terms of invest…