> Now, why don't they send me the two boxes? I understand when I was asking for firmware to be open sourced that that actually might be difficult for them, but the boxes are on eBay with a simple $$ cost. It was never about the boxes themselves, it was a test to see if software had any budget or power. And they failed super hard
I know this is someone else's reasoning, so you can't answer this question, but, doesn't this just test if they want to spend the budget on this specific thing?
If I ask a company for a $100,000 grant, and they're not willing, it doesn't seem like correct logic to assume that means they don't have the budget for it. Maybe they just don't want to spend $100,000 on me.
Why does this mean they don't have a budget or power?
He assumes the software department wants to do this, which - yes - seems to be flawed logic on his side.
Let's imagine he's indeed correct. He receives the hardware, get's hacking and solves all of AMDs problem, the stock surges and tinygrad becomes a major deep learning framework.
That would be a collosal embarrassment for AMDs software department.
Chip vendors regularly send out free hardware to software developers. In this case I don't think the cost is the issue; AMD simply doesn't want what Geohot is offering.
Considering that AMD is only really supporting their datacenter GPUs with ROCm, this is the worst possible response. It means compute on AMD GPUs is only meant for the elite of the elite and forever out of reach for the average consumer and that Nvidia is not only outcompeting AMD on quality but also on cost.
It's like asking a tire manufacturer to give you a car for free.