Comment by cedws
At this point it looks to me like something is seriously broken internally at AMD resulting in their software stack being lacklustre. They’ve had a lot of time to talk to customers about their problems and spin up new teams, but as far as I’ve heard there’s been very little progress, despite the enormous incentives. I think Lisa Su is a great CEO but perhaps not shaking things up enough in the software department. She is from a hardware background after all.
There used to be a time when hw vendors begudgingly put out sample driver code which contained 1 file with 5000 lines of C code - which just about barely worked. The quality of software was not really a priority, as most of the revenue was from hw sales. That reflected in the quality of hires and incentive structures.