> Is it weird how the comments here are blaming AMD and not Nvidia?
Not even a little bit. It simply isn't Nvidia's job to provide competitive alternatives to Nvidia. Competing is something AMD must take responsibility for.
The only reason CUDA is such a big talking point is because AMD tripped over their own feet supporting accelerated BLAS on AMD GPUs. Realistically it probably is hard to implement (AMD have a lot of competent people on staff) but Nvidia hasn't done anything unfair apart from execute so well that they make all the alternatives look bad.
Not even a little bit. It simply isn't Nvidia's job to provide competitive alternatives to Nvidia. Competing is something AMD must take responsibility for.
The only reason CUDA is such a big talking point is because AMD tripped over their own feet supporting accelerated BLAS on AMD GPUs. Realistically it probably is hard to implement (AMD have a lot of competent people on staff) but Nvidia hasn't done anything unfair apart from execute so well that they make all the alternatives look bad.