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AMD's Unified AI Software Stack Might Be A Boon For Other Vulkan/SPIR-V Hardware Too

Earlier this month AMD talked more about their Unified AI Software Stack plans for debuting in the coming months to provide a unified software view where AI work can be seamlessly offloaded to Ryzen processors, AMD graphics, or AMD Ryzen AI NPU hardware

But then what struck me this week was remembering that for LLVM/Clang 19 an AMD AI compiler engineer began landing a generic MLIR to SPIR-V pass. So if this convert-to-spirv pass becomes viable enough, it could potentially open the door to the AMD Unified AI Software Stack working for other non-AMD GPUs. There's also routes to execute SPIR-V on the CPU and other possibilities once the MLIR is transitioned to the Khronos Group backed IR.

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