AMD’s Phoenix SoC
> <i>Documentation suggests a 1 GHz clock, but Phoenix’s XDNA might be running at 1.25 GHz as AMD says BF16 is supported with 5 TFLOPS of throughput.</i><p>It's amazing seeing the ML FPGA come out on a CPU. There's such an incredible opportunity for AMD here, if they can get the world adopting & using this kind of hardware that most folks in dev are not used to using. Great seeing some internal details here.<p>I haven't heard a peep thought about devs actually having access to this hardware. One of the big criticisms at launch time was that there was essentially no material for using this sizable part of the chip.<p>It's not just important for Phoenix & latter chips, it's potential bridge for AMD to make their FPGA in general used & adopted. But like the GPUs, it's questionable whether AMD can get broadscale enough adoption for advantage to mean anything for them. Ideally AMD would be working with yosys or openxla or someone to have an easy to adopt synthesis pipeline folks could play with. Right now I still haven't heard that they have anything, even proprietary or self-made.<p>Edit: oh well, AMD <i>just</i> dropped something!
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