Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "AMD's Ryzen AI Hardware Does NOT Support Linux!" video.

  1. I get AMD's logic here—these are going into laptops, and AFAICT nothing in the Ryzen or Radeon desktop 7000-series has these co-processors. These are not for general AI development but rather for some demoing some tricks that Microsol / OpenAI are spearheading.
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  2. A quick note on 3:28 — I believe that's indicating that this magical AI chip is a modified Xilinx FPGA which, if true, would be incredible to have on an SoC that's going in literal gaming handhelds. Sorry for the double-post.
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  3. They do, though, with their Instinct accelerators (which have Linux support), which are, pound for pound, about 50% cheaper than Nvidia's HPC hardware
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  4. FWIW, looks like their Instinct line of dedicated AI accelerators do have drivers for RHEL, Ubuntu, and SUSE. Completely different use-case, I know. But I also fully expect these "AI cores" to go the way of PhysX co-processors in 3-5 years, at least where consumers are concerned.
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  5.  @levygaming3133  Allegedly ROCm is supported on RDNA2 and above, and AMD does have drivers out for their XDNA "neural" coprocessors. I have a machine with a 70W 7840HS, so one of these days I do plan on actually trying to get an AI stack up and running on it, but mostly just for a laugh. I am blessedly pivoting away from that waste of space and trying to put as much distance as I can between myself and "AI" before the bubble bursts.
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  6. I'm intrigued by the comment about there already being a Linux driver for the Xilinx co-processor and it theoretically being usable on 7040 devices—feel like looking into it and reporting back? Because if it is, it makes it 50x more likely that I'll be buying that AMD Framework laptop (or a GPD Win 2 Max 2) in the next year.
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