AMD Sends Out Linux Patches For Their Next-Gen AIE4 NPU

Hitting the mailing list today are patches providing initial support for AMD's next-gen NPU "AIE4" platform, complete with SR-IOV support.

AMD is working on bringing up their next-gen NPU IP under Linux. The patches provide initial support for the AMD NPU AIE4 platform atop the AMDXDNA accelerator driver in the Linux kernel. AMD's Ryzen AI NPU leverages the AI Engine "AIE" processors that originally was based on work by Xilinx. Each AI Engine consists of a vector processor, scalar processor, and on-chip memory.