AMD says it has a major advantage in the AI chip race against Nvidia: being more open.
AMD has long promoted this strategy through its open-source ROCm software, used to program AI chips. Since ROCm is available as open source, it’s free for anyone to use, download, or modify. On the company’s earnings call on Tuesday, AMD CEO Lisa Su said this software is at an “inflection point,” with open-source contributions up 10 times in the past year.
Two AMD executives spoke with Business Insider in July, prior to earnings, about how making some of the company’s major software and hardware products open-source gives the company a leg up over companies…
