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> add them to LLVM soon

I’m not sure what “them” is. Apple has AMX, a Neural Engine, and a GPU which are abstracted through the Core ML and Accelerate libraries.

AMX is not exposed as an instruction set like NEON. I guess this question applies to all of the numerical analysis tool chains: will they be able to leverage Apple silicon coprocessors/accelerators?



I was talking specifically about the ARM ISA extensions. The accelerators are a different question of course. I understand the folks working on the Linux port are trying to reverse the GPU ISA. Apple could of course also just publish that, but I'd put the odds on that lower than the ISA extensions. That said, Apple has sometimes surprised me on these kinds of things.




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