A Former Apple Luminary Sets Out to Create the Ultimate GPU Software

Still, developers say that bringing code from Nvidia’s CUDA to ROCm isn’t a smooth process, which means they typically focus on building for just one chip vendor.

“ROCm is amazing, it’s open source, but it runs on one vendor’s hardware,” Lattner told the crowd at AMD’s Advancing AI event in June. Then he made his pitch for why Modular’s software is more portable and makes GPUs that much faster.

Lattner’s talk at AMD is representative of the kind of dance that Lattner and Davis need to do…