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Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end

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838 points alsetmusic | 5 comments | 27 Aug 25 01:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.013s | source
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syntaxing ◴[27 Aug 25 02:06 UTC] No.45034679[source]▶
What an end to an era. It's crazy to think she started this journey at 18 and now finished 5 years later. Not many people believed they would be able to make the GPU work in Asahi linux. Kinda curious what her "Onto the next challenge!" link means. Is she working for Intel Xe-HPG next?
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kccqzy ◴[27 Aug 25 02:18 UTC] No.45034754[source]▶
Yes I think so. Her resume says she started working for Intel on open source graphics driver this month.
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xiphias2 ◴[27 Aug 25 06:23 UTC] No.45036050[source]▶
Too bad it was not Apple who hired her for M4, but in business leaders are always the most closed ones.
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porphyra ◴[27 Aug 25 09:28 UTC] No.45037250[source]▶
Honestly if Apple had embraced Linux, the Apple Silicon CPUs would have been amazing for all sorts of server, scientific, and AI/LLM work. Too bad they are clamping down on the walled garden to focus on consumer toys instead.
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1. zozbot234 ◴[27 Aug 25 09:35 UTC] No.45037300[source]▶
> Honestly if Apple had embraced Linux, the Apple Silicon CPUs would have been amazing for all sorts of server, scientific, and AI/LLM work.

You can already do this work on M1/M2 using Asahi. A compute server doesn't need fully working peripherals and external displays.

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2. porphyra ◴[27 Aug 25 09:41 UTC] No.45037346[source]▶
I do have an M2 Macbook running Asahi, which works amazingly well for my casual use, but I think that there is no way that anyone will use last last gen hardware on a volunteer-developed OS for any actual work, server use cases, and so on.
3. solardev ◴[27 Aug 25 12:52 UTC] No.45038972[source]▶
How would GPGPU work in such a scenario?
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4. zozbot234 ◴[27 Aug 25 13:30 UTC] No.45039413[source]▶
The M1/M2 GPU is supported via Vulkan Compute. (Or OpenCL/SYCL, going through rusticl.)
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5. solardev ◴[27 Aug 25 14:10 UTC] No.45039990{3}[source]▶
Thank you!