What do you think of this FT article/headline? I think the article is locked?
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The article was clearly written by someone who does not get the technology.
It is normal that the software support is raw because this Huawei platform has been in development for less time than Cuda. But support will improve with time.
They are also wrong in that NVidia has a huge software team and they frequently allocate their own engineers to help customers modify or write their software to work in their Cuda platform. They have done this for like a decade and a half that is why their platform is better. That Huawei is bothering to do the same though is a vast improvement over the situation with the other vendors in the market.
The main problem I see with Huawei's approach is that I think China should have made a unified software platform for all their AI vendors. The current situation risks fragmentation and duplication of effort.
IMHO China should have adopted OpenCL and built on top of that. OpenCL 3.0 basically solves all the major issues people had with initial versions. The main issue is lack of libraries built on top of it. But this could have been collaboratively by all the Chinese vendors.
