The only reason our lab bought 20k worth of Nvidia gpu cards rather than amd was the cuda industry standard (might as wellbe). It's kind of mind boggling how much business amd must be losing over this.
That was a good decision. The amount of lamenting engineers I’ve seen over the years who’ve been given the task of trying to get more affordable AMD cards to work with enterprise functionality is nontrivial. AMD nearly borders on hostility with its silence, even if you want to throw millions at them, it’s insane.
At least Nvidia, which I fucking hate, will happily hold out their hand for cash even from individuals.
So now we’re in a hilarious situation where people from hobbyists to enterprise devs are hoping for intel to save the day.
(the "no datacenter" clause obviously excludes workstations, and the terms of this license cannot be applied to the open kernel driver since it's GPL'd)
