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Kraid is a now a real compiler

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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?
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Kraid is the shader compiler for Panfrost, the Mesa driver for Arm Mali GPUs: https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/panfrost.html
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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.
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What devices are likely to benefit from Kraid? Are Arm Mali GPUs mostly in Android phones?
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Next step is obviously to build Ridley
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And an LLM named Motherbrain perhaps?
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800,000 test??? wow So if I can use Kriad, does that mean I can build AI without having to use NVIDIA chips
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You already can with AMD/Intel gpus. Kraid is a compiler for Arm Mali which is mostly used on mobile stuff, nothing AI related.
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