Infrastructure

Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'

ROCm's patient incremental gains highlight the long-term competitive struggle needed to fragment NVIDIA's CUDA dominance in GPU computing—ecosystem lock-in rarely yields to overnight alternatives.

Monday, April 13, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Hacker NewsBY sys://pipeline

AMD's ROCm platform continues efforts to provide an open-source alternative to NVIDIA's CUDA for GPU computing. The article covers ROCm's incremental progress in the competitive AI acceleration ecosystem.

Read original at Hacker News

Microsoft says the ‘idea’ of an Xbox mobile store ‘is not dead’

Microsoft's Xbox mobile store, promised for July 2024, remains indefinitely stalled by Apple and Google's app store restrictions despite the company's ongoing regulatory push for more open mobile competition.