Green team suspected of delaying orders for customers caught ‘in flagrante’ with rivals.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/9700996

Nvidia’s AI customers are scared to be seen courting other AI chipmakers for fear of retaliatory shipment delays, says rival firm

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    9 months ago

    require their software to be open source

    I’m all for open source, but that would basically be like confiscating and giving away that part of the company.
    Something we might expect from China, but not a democratic society.

    • bane_killgrind@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      Is their product the GPU or is their product softwares?

      They are basically abusing their customers into doing less with the hardware by obfuscating it’s functionality.

      • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        AFAIK you don’t pay extra to use CUDA or drivers, so while software is part of the ecosystem, there is no doubt the product is the hardware. When in doubt, follow the money.

      • UndercoverUlrikHDEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        It’s both. Jensen himself has said they aren’t a GPU company anymore, highlighting their software stack. CUDA was not built in a day.

        • kingthrillgore@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          CUDA was not mostly ‘built’ by them. It was originally built on top of technology acquired by a company called Aegia. Aegia built an ASIC and a physics engine that could run instructions for the ASIC, called “PhysX” and that team ported their toolchain to run on GPUs and other ASICs.

          • UndercoverUlrikHDEnglish
            3·
            9 months ago

            CUDA was initially released in 2007, and Aegia was acquired in 2008. It would be extremely dishonest to not say that CUDA is what it is today due to Nvidia.

            I get that hating on big corpos is cool on this platform, but there’s no need to warp reality just to talk smack about them.