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TIL ROCm stands for "Radeon [redacted] [redacted] mlatform (feddit.uk)
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[-] kayzeekayzee 134 points 6 months ago

"Open Compute" being trademarked is pretty ironic

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

https://www.opencompute.org/projects

This seems to be a non-profit

Well, ~~FSF~~ OSI would have trademarked "Open Source" if they could.

[-] lesnout27@feddit.org 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

boring dystopia smth

[-] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 months ago

Given the context, I choose to believe smth means "shaking my tiny head".

[-] lesnout27@feddit.org 4 points 6 months ago

yes, what else should it mean?

[-] zlatko@programming.dev 4 points 6 months ago

shaking my (trademark) head?

[-] lesnout27@feddit.org 3 points 6 months ago

Well, didn't think about that

[-] SnotFlickerman 54 points 6 months ago

ROCm SOCm robots?

[-] qupada@fedia.io 19 points 6 months ago

I made this joke to people who work for AMD. I was a bit shocked that it hadn't occurred to them :D

[-] brisk@aussie.zone 31 points 6 months ago

Radeon Open Compute Mplatform

[-] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 13 points 6 months ago

Right. Thirsty marketers ruin everything.

[-] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 5 points 6 months ago

They could have at least renamed it to Radeon Operational Compute method or something...

[-] Midnitte@beehaw.org 3 points 6 months ago

Radeon Open Computational Matrix'm

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