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   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Oregonian Haruspex   
   Re: Chinese-Made GPUs   
   28 Jul 25 22:24:09   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 14:57:15 -0000 (UTC), Oregonian Haruspex wrote:   
      
   > OpenCL should have been adopted by everybody and NVIDIA should have   
   > been left to suck eggs.   
      
   Unfortunately, being the dominant GPU maker, they were in a position   
   to call the shots. They saw no profit in supporting an open standard   
   that put competitors on a level playing field, so they didn’t.   
      
   > But the whole industry lost the plot when OpenGL was ditched.   
      
   This had nothing to do with Vulkan. OpenCL is much older than that.   
      
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