Tiny Corp reluctantly launching Nvidia-powered AI PC
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Startup slams AMD for buggy firmware
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    1•8 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Initially, Tiny Corp was happy to use AMD GPUs as it felt customers were “overpaying for petaflops” with Nvidia hardware, and criticized the CUDA software stack for being closed source.

    Earlier in the month, however, the Tiny Corp X account (likely piloted by Hotz) began complaining about driver and firmware issues that caused crashes and hangups, threatening to undermine the Radeon GPU-powered computer.

    Since making the firmware open source to debug it was a key priority of Tiny Corp, it seemed to signal the end of the AMD model of the TinyBox.

    However, earlier today the startup announced it would be going through with the RX 7900XTX TinyBox after all thanks to a “umr” repository it found.

    This may mean AMD has partially addressed Tiny Corp’s stability issues with the RX 7900XTX, though it’s not clear whether this solution is at least in part open source.

    Tiny Corp may also ship an Arc A770 TinyBox in the future, though it says there’s only a prototype and that there are no plans to launch it at the moment.

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