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[Marc Driftmeyer]

That's what happens when you're last to market and have the smallest influence over the direction of consumer preferences....

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Each implementation to be patentable has to be novel and unique. I imagine the `committee' agreed upon a novel and unique non-patentable version for ...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

If Intel had the IP and hardware R&D already ironed out from 24-48 months they wouldn't have cross licensed with AMD.

These won't compete...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Vega stomps the crap out of Polaris on compute. You know for doing actual work....

[Marc Driftmeyer]

You realize deprecated APIs on OS X hang around from 3-5 years. By that time frame people will be fully entrenched with using Metal and Vulkan will have...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

It's about Time to Market. The 12nm is the Zen+ and is for Fall 2018. The 7nm is Zen 2 and Vega 2, both of which have never been slated before 2019, sans...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

If you've been following the news they preannounced several wins already....

[Marc Driftmeyer]

In case people can't read

https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-art...ase-Notes.aspx

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[Marc Driftmeyer]

Does anyone need reminding that the single biggest OpenCL vendor still, AMD, is on OpenCL 1.2 and not OpenCL 2.x and that the HSA initiative was a bust?...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Apple created OpenCL, hence they own the trademark. They gave it to Khronos to further expand it and make it an industry wide standard....

[Marc Driftmeyer]

OpenCL is folded into Metal API. It's both Graphics primitive and Open Compute Language in one.

You know, what Khronos wants to do with ...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Better uninstall CUPS because Apple has done so much damage to it. Oh wait! The exact opposite has happened, just like with creating Clang, LLDB, etc...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Yes, because the creators of Display Postscript also created Display PDF and the team also created Quartz/Quartz Extreme with all the groundwork layed...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Why don't they work on Epiphany/WebKitGTK+ first.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

The sooner people embrace Epiphany as it matures with WebKit 2 and userspace features I would expect fewer people to use Firefox on Linux.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

The Pro driver OpenCL works for me on 4.15 as follows:

Linux horus 4.15.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.15.4-1 (2018-02-18) x86_64 GNU/Linux...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Here's my question that never gets a professional answer.

Say I'm not using Ubuntu, but Debian, or any other third party distro and I need...