• Hacker News
  • new|
  • comments|
  • show|
  • ask|
  • jobs|
  • joshmarinacci 1 hours

    What devices are likely to benefit from Kraid? Are Arm Mali GPUs mostly in Android phones?

  • mock-possum 3 hours

    Next step is obviously to build Ridley

    lemoncucumber 1 hours

    And an LLM named Motherbrain perhaps?

  • jdw64 4 hours

    800,000 test??? wow So if I can use Kriad, does that mean I can build AI without having to use NVIDIA chips

    Azantys 1 hours

    You already can with AMD/Intel gpus. Kraid is a compiler for Arm Mali which is mostly used on mobile stuff, nothing AI related.

  • pianoben 3 hours

    I'm very confused as to what Kraid actually does and who it's for. It's a compiler of some sort, but for what? GLSL? What's significant about it beyond the target backends?

    elehack 3 hours

    Kraid is the shader compiler for Panfrost, the Mesa driver for Arm Mali GPUs: https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/panfrost.html

    pianoben 21 minutes

    So Panfrost is an OpenGL ES implementation for Mali-type GPUs then? Thank you for that. Still confused about the role of a compiler here because I'm uninformed. So Kraid is a GLSL compiler that is specific to those GPUs? Neat.