> The trouble is that AMD just didn't take AI seriously.
No worries, AI is not very complicated tech. It's just a core that can do arithmetic (something AMD already knows how to do very well) copied a very large number of times on a chip, plus some interconnect.
CPUs with all their speculative execution and random memory access patterns are much more complicated.
AI is more than just the underlying math. The software ecosystem is very important, which is what NVIDIA's lead is built on. AMD has a very hard time providing an "it just works" type experience in the way that NVIDIA offers these days.
Machine learning engineers (or most people writing GPU code) do not typically have the time, knowledge or interest to diagnose driver issues and beg AMD engineers to address them in a reasonable time frame.
No worries, AI is not very complicated tech. It's just a core that can do arithmetic (something AMD already knows how to do very well) copied a very large number of times on a chip, plus some interconnect.
CPUs with all their speculative execution and random memory access patterns are much more complicated.