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AMD ROCm 6.4 Adds SPIR-V Linking Support To HIP
With the recently released AMD ROCm 6.4 release for this open-source GPU compute stack for Radeon and Instinct hardware there are yet more indications around AMD's growing software ecosystem expansion
Being able to easily link SPIR-V within AMD HIP use-cases opens up new doors as well and can enhance ROCm/HIP interoperability with other industry APIs. This move isn't entirely surprising though as one year ago I wrote about an AMD ROCm developer working on vendor-flavored SPIR-V within LLVM. I am still trying to figure out all of what AMD's plans are around their elusive "Unified AI Software Stack" with broad AI/compute support across all of their different CPU / NPU / GPU / accelerator products, but there's a good chance SPIR-V is part of that and these HIP API additions in ROCm 6.4 are another baby step in that direction.
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