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CUDA and the Vendor Lock-In Problem in GPU Programming

NVIDIA's dominance in AI hardware is a software story as much as a chip story. Comparing CUDA, AMD's ROCm, and the slow, still-unfinished emergence of SYCL and WebGPU as genuinely portable alternatives.

CUDA and the Vendor Lock-In Problem in GPU Programming

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NVIDIA's dominance in AI hardware is a software story as much as a chip story.

Comparing CUDA, AMD's ROCm, and the slow, still-unfinished emergence of SYCL and WebGPU as genuinely portable alternatives.

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NVIDIA's dominance in AI hardware is a software story as much as a chip story. Comparing CUDA, AMD's ROCm, and the slow, still-unfinished emergence of SYCL and WebGPU as genuinely portable alternatives.

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