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At least going forward, with both AMD's AI accelerators and Consumer GPUs using the same RDNA based IP, there will be less reason for AMD to drop RDNA GPUs from the ROCm/HIP support matrix! And so with both MI series accelerators and consumer GPUs/Graphics all using the same basic RDNA Micro-Architecture the ROCm/HIP code base developed for "CDNA5"/later will work for consumer RDNA as well with minor changes required! Polaris and Vega GPUs/Graphics both have been dropped from the ROCm/HIP support matrix. But with AMD's "The Rock" software stack making use of SPIR-V in the same manner as Nvidia/PTX there made be little issues getting that to work with older Vega/Polaris GPUs. even if AMD's not validated/verified that software stack with Consumer Vega/Earlier Consumer GPUs and Integrated Graphics. AMD's biggest issue has been dropping its older GPU micro-architectures from the ROCm/HIP support matrix too soon, and just look at Blender 3D's HIP Back End that requires RDNA2/Later GPUs and Graphics for any Radeon iGPU/dGPU Accelerated Blender 3D Cycles rendering support!

Sure, now do the Entire Linux Manual Pages as Railroad Diagrams, if it was Good Enough for the Old Boroughs Mainframe systems then it's good for Linux! BNF as well!

"We" at Mozilla do not care about ADA as our Firefox browser's spell checker is so Gawd Awful for folks that have issues with spelling and such!

LOL, no Mention of IMEC(Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre) in the EUV development process and the only reason that the US can restrict the ASML EUV equipment is the EUV Light source and mirror optics for that is partially US produced and the IP there falls under US IP/Export restrictions!

From ASML:

"ASML’s extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light source was developed and is manufactured at its facility in San Diego, California. Acquired from the US firm Cymer in 2013, the R&D team here developed the laser-produced plasma (LPP) system that fires lasers at tin droplets 50,000 times per second to generate EUV light."

Blender SYCL Back End question, is there any potential there to get Polaris and Vega iGPUs/dGPUs working for GPU accelerated Cycles rendering via SYCL? And so AMD's abandoned Polaris and Vega for ROCm/HIP support but what about SYCL and that Accelerator ecosystem that's more cross platform in the same manner that OpenCL once was with regards to GPU compute!

It's nice to see Emulators getting GPU acceleration on older Graphics generations where there's plenty of useful parallel compute to be tapped into!

How about Supporting Vega And Polaris GPUs via SYCL so Blender 3D's SYCL back end can be utilized for Vega and Polaris GPU accelerated Cycles rendering! The Radeon HD 7650M(TeraScale Rebrand) on my HP ProBook has long since given up the ghost but Vega and Polaris GPUs were dropped from the ROCm/HIP support Matrix long before AMD stopped selling new GPUs and APUs that utilized Vega Graphics and Polaris GPUs have been given such poor treatment by AMD with regards to GPU compute API support that more needs to be done there for those legacy devices that are GCN based and abandoned by AMD all too soon. And people do make use of Blender 3D to create Gaming Assets and it's a crying shame that Vega and Polaris iGPUs and dGPUs can not get some SYCL based support as Blender 3D's SYCL Back End is being worked on to support Adreno Graphics for iGPU accelerated Cycles Rendering!

Jim Keller: "RISC-V is the Future"

I Got registered to vote when applying for a Driver License renewal and even though I checked no on the form and I've renewed my DL multiple and never voted once since and said no every time! And still they have not removed me from the Voter registration Rolls! And they are going to have to Incarcerate me to get me to serve Jury Duty and I'm nearly one year late on serving my Jury Summons currently. And I Called my State's Voter Registration when that involuntary voter registration happened to inform them that that was done against my will and still to this day I remain on the Voter Rolls!

Making things more expensive for Americans in attempt to bring production back to the US, and for an infrastructure that will take multiple years to reestablish, is not going to help very much reduce inflation into the 2026/Later election cycles. And once again this affects the Billionaire class none at all, and very little likewise for the top 10%, and so the bottom 90% will suffer the higher costs because re-shoring production after it's gone takes more time than one term in office! But Billionaire Trump is not struggling to make ends meet, as that Ballroom and Gaudy Arch get the Lion's share of attention all while the Trump administration attacks legitimate research grants in the US.

Desperately trying to find uses for that AI so that all those billions expended can appear useful to the Investors, that are mostly just the AI Companies themselves investing in each other's services in a Peter to Paul scheme to keep that bubble from Imploding into a Black Hole of insolvency!

So pain all around for the supply chains for PCs/Laptops and Console/Devices makers until the DRAM/NAND Market prices stabilize. Maybe Nvidia's Jensen can convince the US to allow for Chinese DRAM/NAND to be used/imported to supply markets that are hungry for that. But even if the Chinese increase their production to meet their internal needs for DRAM/NAND that can sill reduce the need for using only the western suppliers that are maybe artificially limiting their production to keep prices inflated!

The Tech Press is maybe focused too much on the Big 3(Micron, Samsung, and SK-Hynix) and maybe the Chinese Government will be helping to increase their own internally produced DRAM/NAND production to meet more than just the Chinese internal market needs! Electric power for Industrial production of DRAM/NAND is relatively more affordable in China and the Chinese appear to be not as restricted by the Foundry Equipment import restrictions.

But maybe the western Markets need to allow China access to the older DUV equipment that's gotten restricted, as well as the EUV equipment, to allow for there to be more DRAM/NAND productions to meet demand worldwide for DRAM/NAND to be supplied to keep prices more sane for everyone worldwide! DRAM and NAND production does not necessarily need EUV or any leading edge process node technology but even DUV equipment is being restricted from Chinese Import and maybe the Western Governments need to allow the Chinese to purchase more of those used DUV machines to help relieve the supply DRAM/NAND shortage.

Maybe the Chinese can provide some of its Long Distance Power Transmission infrastructure and supply power to neighboring countries and sell power to places that are not as Fab Equipment restricted to produce DRAM/NAND for SE Asian market DRAM/NAND needs. But with the Price of DRAM/NAND so high there will probably be the investment to do just that in SE Asia and using Chinese supplied Electrical power for that production as the Chinese look to be quite capable to supply more electrical power than even the Chinese need currently for its internal needs!

Because the ISA that a modern microprocessor is engineered to execute is different from the Micro-ops execution engine/Other(The Actual Hardware) that's a custom design that's the IP of the creator. And so Qualcomm wants that RISC-V running CPU core design IP that belongs to Ventana Micro Systems and the ISA on modern microprocessors is just a set of execution rules that the actual hardware(Micro-Ops execution engine and associated cache subsystems/other parts of the hardware and that IP that belongs to Ventana!) is engineered to execute.

Qualcomm also wants the RISC-V engineers and their Knowledge and the Software Ecosystem and SDKs/Tools that Ventana has developed over the years to create CPU cores that execute that RISC-V ISA. And that includes all the design Verification tools/EDA tools that Ventana developed for their specific CPU core designs and all that non hardware stuff that takes a larger investment in dollars than just the hardware's development alone costs!

So the RISC-V ISA is Royalty free but not anyone's actual RISV-V ISA executing CPU core designs that cost millions to create and are the proprietary part of the Acquisition that Qualcomm is after. I'd imagine that Qualcomm's Nuvia engineers could more rapidly swap out the ARM ISA Instruction Decoders on any Oyron cores with some RISC-V Decoders and use most of the same Oryon Micro-op engine design that's native to the current Oryan generation cores but maybe Ventana's micro-op execution engine has something that's valuable to Qualcomm as well.

And so ISAs on modern microprocessors are abstracted away at the actual hardware level by the Micro-ops execution engine desogns that are proprietary to the ones that created them. And the reason that many license from ARM holdings is not just the ISA but the software/OS/Drover ecosystem that's built up over the decades for the ARM ISA ecosystem and that costs many times more than the hardware's costs to develop and maintain over the years. And so the ARM OS/Software/API and driver ecosystem is decades more mature than the RISC-V OS/Software/API and driver ecosystem, and that took years and 100s of billions in investments to get ARM where it is today!

But since RISC-V is royalty free there are hundreds of companies using RISC-V, including Nvidia for it's FALCON(FAst Logic CONtrollers) that are used all over Nvidia's GPUs and other accelerators. And with RISC-V one is free to implement only a subset of the RISC-V ISA or create custom RISC-V ISA extensions unlike ARM holdings where licensees have to implement the entire ARM Licensed ISA regardless of if all the instructions are needed for the task and no ISA extensions allowed.

So maybe Qualcomm is interested in the micro-controller market that's lower margin and that makes RISC-V's Royally Free more attractive! Or Qualcomm, like Nvidia, wants to develop some RISC-V Micro-Controllers for it's own in-house needs and not have to pay for ARM Holdings ISA based Micro-Controller designs. Look at Nvidia's dozens of on GPU die Controllers(Encoder/Decoder Logic,Etc) and because that's Nvidia FALCON RISC-V based that's quite a bit of savings in Royalty Payments and CPU core design payments to ARM Holdings or anyone else because FALCON is Nvidia's In-House IP and that RISC-V ISA is free to use for Nvidia or others to save billions that way.

The EU and Canada, UK, Australia, Mexico/etc need some new Trade Pact to counter What Trump is doing and to reduce their dependency on the US as a trading partner longer term! The Social democracies around the world are Trump's/Crony Capitalists' target because the Social democracies provide for the health care for their citizens instead of those countries letting the Crony Capitalists bleed the citizens of those Social Democracies dry! The Social Democracies provide for other progressive social Safety Net programs and education benefits that benefit the Social Democratic societies as a whole and not just the 10% most wealthy!

Trump and the Republican Party wants to get rid of the Entire New Deal legislation and return the US back to a regulatory structure that existed in the Pre Sherman Antitrust Act(1890) days in America when the Robber Baron controlled Crony Capitalistic Trusts had free reign and the US Economy was effectively cornered by the Robber Baron Trusts and hardly free market at all!

The Social Democracies need look at the US as not sharing the same values as the Social Democracies in the world and those Social Democracies should have been taking measures since 1980 to reduce any dependency on the US economically!

The US Should be Actively Labeled a Crony Capitalist Country and one that is Oligarch Dominated and not really a Free Market Capitalistic country!

And Trump/Crony Capitalists are actively trying to destabilize the Canadian economy as well as the economies of Mexico and South America!

Since 1980 the Republican controlled houses of congress have intentionally not raised the Worker Soc Sec Retirement withholding amounts so as to not have to properly increase SS-Benefits to cover inflation! And it was not because the Republicans actually cared about the workers themselves as the Republicans were more focused on keeping the Low Wage industries' in the US matching Employer Soc Sec withholdings as low as possible.

An so wee have had an intentionally undefended SS-Retirement fund the last 40+ years of the Republican controlled congress, that mostly had the Republican Congressional Majority overlapping many Democrat Controlled executive office tenures! And so Social Security does not work By Republican Party Anti New Deal design, before and especially since 1980!

The Social Security 2100 act needs to get passed so that no low wage retiree gets a SS-Retirement check that's below 100% of the federal poverty level and that Republican Tax Cut for the most wealthy and Corporations in the US needs to be allowed to elapse to pay for that. And really the Corporate Tax Rates in the US needs to be returned to the same levels that they where when Eisenhower was POTUS and to fix the 40+ years of Republican Party intentional underestimating the proper SS-Withholding amount to properly fund Social Security!