(Image credit: Tom's Hardware) Jim Keller, a legendary processor architect who has worked on x86, Arm, MISC, and RISC-V processors, this weekend criticized Nvidia's CUDA architecture and software stack and likened it to x86, which he called a swamp. He pointed out that even Nvidia itself has multiple special-purpose software packages that rely on open-source frameworks for performance reasons. "CUDA is a swamp, not a moat," Keller wrote in an X post. "x86 was a swamp too. […] CUDA is not beautif...