I'm shocked to see almost zero discussion of CUDA and the Nvidia GPU architecture's role in this. There's been no about-face from the industry related to Nvidia's success, just a reinvestment in the same broken raster architectures that are fast becoming a second-class citizen.
It's doubly funny, because Nvidia never expressly tried to stop them either. Working with Khronos, Nvidia proved they weren't afraid to build the next CUDA-killer, even in collaboration with the industry. But we'd sooner get working SPIR-V, because gaming is a much more important market than democratized compute.
This will all be very confusing and hard to explain to people in the future. Why was Nvidia rich? Because nobody else wanted the money, I guess.
It's doubly funny, because Nvidia never expressly tried to stop them either. Working with Khronos, Nvidia proved they weren't afraid to build the next CUDA-killer, even in collaboration with the industry. But we'd sooner get working SPIR-V, because gaming is a much more important market than democratized compute.
This will all be very confusing and hard to explain to people in the future. Why was Nvidia rich? Because nobody else wanted the money, I guess.