On: AMD may get across the CUDA moat

[killerstorm]

Not true. People got interested in general-purpose GPU compute (GPGPU) in early 2000s when video cards with programmable shaders became available. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_computing_on_g...

People made a programming language & a compiler/runtime for GPGPU in 2004: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrookGPU

[hot_gril → killerstorm]

Everything has old beginnings that the specialists will remember, but GPU compute really reached mass popularity and became a large selling point for Nvidia in the 2010s.