AMD has launched into the accelerator card market this week, with the launch of its new Radeon Instinct hardware. It’s a blow to Intel, which finds itself struggling to keep up with another GPU-based rival in the emerging market, but the initial benchmarks seem to indicate that AMD will not dethrone Nvidia. With Alibaba as a major cloud customer, and Google providing AMD’s hardware in its data centers for customers, as well as niche projects like that at the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment, AMD can certainly carve out a nice niche for itself – especially for workloads that might run better on its OpenGL/OpenCL architecture, instead of Nvidia’s CUDA design. However, AMD’s main competitive disadvantage is the comparative size…