Earlier this year, the ZLUDA software was published in the public domain, which allows retranslating NVIDIA CUDA commands into ones understandable for AMD video cards and launching hardware acceleration of “green” in various applications on “red” video cards. Now we are told that AMD asked the developer of this software to get rid of the ZLUDA code (remove it from the public domain), and the reason for this, most likely, was NVIDIA lawyers knocking on the door of the “red”. The release itself, by the way, was initially agreed upon with AMD. Let us recall that NVIDIA recently completely banned all CUDA retranslation layers from existing.
The developer has stated that he does not intend to completely get rid of ZLUDA and will continue development, but will restart it from the moment he began preparing his own software for AMD Radeon. At the same time, we are reminded that the source code and other fragments of ZLUDA can be easily found on the network and NVIDIA will never be able to remove everything.
