About time. I have wasted so much time working around bugs in their D3D graphics drivers, spent days documenting and providing test cases and bug reports that they simply ignore that at this point I cannot recommend buying their hardware.
Their software hasnt always been the best. It sounds like this is them acknowledging that.
Finally they realized why NVidia wins. It's the whole coherent ecosystem, not just hardware with minimalist support in form of buggy drivers.
I wish microcontroller companies also realized this. The amount of shitty development software produced by the likes of ST and Atmel is mind boggling. You can get awesome microcontrollers with crazy capabilities but the software support (IDEs, compilers, HAL libraries, etc.) is invariably terrible. ST's HAL library is a good example: full of bugs, weird APIs, Eclipse-based IDEs, ...
Thankfully they don't assume Eclipse anymore (but it's still not great)
I just do embedded development as a hobby, but STM32CubeMX now supports generating CMake-based projects so you can use your usual C++ development environment and workflow.
ST's HAL is so talked about and so complained about precisely because it's pretty good. I can bring up a lot of stuff using their HAL, whereas you should check the similar frameworks from other silicon vendors. They usually are much much much worse!
I don't think ST's HAL is that good, but I agree that the software support from other vendors is much worse, which is why I actually prefer to use ST microcontrollers.
ST's HAL is not necessarily useful as something to incorporate in your products, but its source files provide a lot of details that cannot be found in other documentation.
Writing your own simpler and more efficient code is much more easily done by editing the libraries and examples provided by ST, than from scratch.
As both an OEM hardware user and stockholder, and in high-regard to TechPowerUp's opinions, this worries me.
Why?
Because I believe more in the profitability of AMD's hardware design (based on past decades). Obviously, almost a week later now [AMD's positive stock performance]... shareholders are in general happy about AMD's entering software. I haven't sold anything and enjoy being incorrect when it leads to good things.
AMD have a greater incentive than ever to get their act together. I have faith Lisa Su will pull it off.
I think George Hotz said it best in one of his streams where he ranted about AMD (not a 1:1 quote): I'll believe it when I see it and if isn't source code, I won't care.