AMD can't be bothered. They've had literally years to fix the SW issue that allows Nvidia to stomp them in the space quarter after quarter with no fix in sight.
You know, I agree with you in a way. There are plenty of clueless teams that will produce broken software for years. I’ve been working since the early nineties and I’ve seen just incredible garbage and especially vendors who can’t stop themselves from just producing pathological orgs that produce bad software.
Look, the reality of software is that it’s actually dozens of markets, from random bloated web crap to building safety-focused critical systems. Each of those areas values different skills and has different knowledge.
But I can attest that AMDs problems - and for that matter, Intel’s since I am familiar with both - is that the companies see software outside of a very few niches as an afterthought and relatively a cost of doing business rather than a value.
It should in fact amaze you that Nvidia has pulled off being dominant. Jensen is pretty well known to have relatively poor understanding of software and Nvidia for a long time had a reputation exactly as I describe in one of my other comments. But Nvidia stock appreciation made it possible for them to become an attractive destination despite their core corporate mentality and accidentally created a company that ended up with a strong software culture.
AMD could solve this problem tomorrow with the right level of investment and a willingness to bulldoze from above the corporate politics that prevent them from having a markwt-leading software team.
Yes, it is hard. I have worked in companies like that before. I am not just saying “hey, go hire some rockstar coders” because that answer is ALWAYS bullshit. Software people are especially prone to thinking that’s the answer and that isn’t what I am saying.
But there are ways for companies in their situation to structure things to make it work out. The specifics are not appropriate for a public forum as it would identify a number of former employers who were successful in fixing their issues.
