Bill Dally, the Chief Technology Officer at NVIDIA, has recently said that he is “familiar with some projects that are underway to enable CUDA on other platforms”. Naturally, lots of people though he was referring to AMD’s GPU. However, NVIDIA PR has told INQ that Dally had probably been referring to something else entirely.

Viewing the bigger picture of GPGPU, there’re a couple of general purpose standards available, including OpenCL and Microsoft’s DirectX Compute. NVIDIA and AMD both have their own standards as well, however, NVIDIA’s CUDA is generally believed to be a bit better than Stream.

Besides, for CUDA to be able to work on AMD GPUs, NVIDIA would absolutely need AMD’s support. It seems that NVIDIA has no intention of adapting its GPUs for AMD’s technology either. “No, I don’t see us supporting Stream…” said Derek Perez, the PR manager at NVIDIA.