SPIR-V on ROCm: A Portable IR for AMD GPUs

Really big news for AMD, lack of a PTX analogue for ROCm was so painful that it set back adoption of AMD GPUs for GPGPU tasks at least a decade. I think things are better now, but my 6900XT took over a year to get Pytorch support. Many cards, including ones branded as "Pro", never got support.

This was an obvious move that I asked AMD reps at conferences about explicitly, to which I received some puzzled looks. I guess they were cooking on it behind the scenes.

Very nice, I guess my next GPU will be a AMD.