Korean startup rival to Nvidia seeks $400M valuation and plans new A.I. chip

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29 points·danboarder··8 comments

Someone needs to dethrone Nvidia. I work with one of their AI-centric chips, and the developer experience is horrible.

Their SDK is a hot mess. They break compatibility with every release. They libraries take up over 70% of my 1.5G system image. They are making bank selling their effectively outdated hardware that is still used in older designs.

I would be embarrassed working for them, because it’s bad enough working with them.

> the developer experience is horrible

This might be true, but it's still the best developer experience in that space by a mile. ROCm (AMD), oneDNN (Intel), OpenVINO (Intel), OpenCL (open) and all the silicon-specific tools are always bad.

AMD ?

Competition is good, so hopefully this happens for real and it forces Nvidia to offer better product and better pricing.

Are they planning to be fabless?

TSMC will fab for them

Another debt loan fake company

Seems unlikely, their CEO has a PhD in engineering from Georgia Tech, spent 14 years at Samsung working her way up to a senior VP, and then joined SK as their VP of Innovation, only to quickly leave to start this startup (that frankly reads more like an SK subsidiary being shielded from bureaucracy).

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