Comment by jchw
I still find their delay with properly investing in ROCm on client to be rather shocking, but in fairness they did finally announce that they would be supporting client cards on day 1[1]. Of course, AMD has to keep the promise for it to matter, but they really do seem to, for whatever reason, finally realized just how important it is that ROCm is well-supported across their entire stack (among many other investments they've announced recently.)
It's baffling that AMD is the same company that makes both Ryzen and Radeon, but the year-to-date for Radeon has been very good, aside from the official ROCm support for RDNA4 taking far too long. I wouldn't get overly optimistic; even if AMD finally committed hard to ROCm and Radeon it doesn't mean they'll be able to compete effectively against NVIDIA, but the consumer showing wasn't so bad so far with the 9070 XT and FSR4, so I'm cautiously optimistic they've decided to try to miss some opportunities to miss opportunities. Let's see how long these promises last... Maybe longer than a Threadripper socket, if we're lucky :)
Is this day 1 support a claim about the future or something they've demonstrated? Because if it involves the future it is safer to just assume AMD will muck it up somehow when it comes to their AI chips. It isn't like their failure in the space is a weird one-off - it has been confusingly systemic for years. It'd be nice if they pull it off, but it could easily be day 1 support for a chip that turns out to crash the computer.
I dunno; I suppose they can execute on server parts. But regardless, a good plan here is to let someone else go first and report back.