The latest AMD Ryzen 7040 series laptops are equipped with a dedicated AI engine based on Xilinx IP, named “Ryzen AI”, which can accelerate the operation of machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow. However, currently this Ryzen AI only supports Microsoft Windows systems. But that could change if there’s enough customer demand.
As early as June, AMD released some Ryzen AI demo code on GitHub, some of which are open source, but they are only available for Windows, and AMD has not released any Ryzen AI Linux drivers.
Someone then opened a pull request on GitHub about Linux support, but the issue was closed three days later with no resolution or Linux support plan communicated.
But today the Linux request was reopened by an AMD employee, with the reasoning being that (Linux) customers can express their needs: “Reopen the issue so that customers can log their Linux requests.”
In another request for Linux support, it was also suggested to give the Linux support thread a like (+1) if interested in seeing Ryzen AI support for Linux: “Please add a “+1” comment to #2 to support Linux.”
It is noted that Ryzen AI is currently only available in the Ryzen 7040 mobile series, but it is foreseeable that more Xilinx IP will appear in their future processors. Given the increasing number of AI workloads, and the fact that Intel has mainlined its open-source Meteor Lake VPU/NPU support in Linux 6.3, and even its next-gen NPUs have support for Arrow Lake, hopefully AMD will start enabling Ryzen AI for Linux.
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