At the AMD Computex keynote last night in addition to announcing the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series, Radeon RX 9060 XT, and Ryzen AI PRO R9700, they also brief talked about the ROCm compute stack and their plans for the second half of 2025.
Andrej Zdravkovic, the SVP and Chief Software Officer at AMD, talked up the ROCm plans for the back half of the year. Notably, he emphasized the desire to have a more seamless out-of-the-box experience on Linux for developers and ensuring ROCm support on client hardware from day one. Great, we’ve only been wanting to see this now for the better part of a decade since ROCm debuted.
Their plan is to deliver “new client hardware on day one” and “each and every new architecture will ship with ROCm.” For the second half of the year is when they plan on officially delivering Radeon RX 9000 series GPU support as well as for the Ryzen AI MAX (Strix Halo) SOC support.
As part of delivering a nice out-of-the-box experience, in H2’2025 they are also working on “in-box support for Linux” with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, openSUSE, and Fedora at least. This support sounds to be the ROCm package integration for different Linux distributions which over the years has seen some progress with the likes of Debian and Fedora for making ROCm packages easily and readily available in distribution repositories/archives.
Hopefully these goals for H2’2025 of this nicer out-of-the-box Linux experience for ROCm as well as day-one client hardware support moving forward pan out. We’ve long been wanting to see such efforts materialize.
Embedded below is the relevant ROCm part to the AMD Computex 2025 keynote.
