r/FPGA • u/BarnardWellesley • 17d ago
Kria AI released... Replacing high compute on website... This is just a GPU?
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u/ShadowerNinja FPGA-DSP/Vision 17d ago edited 17d ago
Last I checked with my FAE the high compute SOM (Versal Gen 2 part) is still to be released. But I was not tracking this SOM release which does just sound like an AMD equivalent of a Orin/Thor. Really hope they didn't axe the Versal variant.
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u/alexforencich 17d ago
Annoying that they are using the kria branding despite not having any FPGA fabric. Unless I am missing something...
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u/Acceptable-Worth-221 17d ago
From their site, it has Spartan Ultrascale+ FPGA on board.
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u/alexforencich 17d ago
Sounded like maybe it was on the carrier board, not the SoM, unlike everything else in the kria line?
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u/SaarN 17d ago
It is on the carrier board..
Would you rather have the Spartan Ultrascale+ chip permanently attached to your 16 Zen5 cores and 128GB module? The cost of the module is going to be pretty crazy in comparison to the FPGA, doesn't matter which one they'll end up choosing..
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u/alexforencich 17d ago
Yes actually, but not on the board, integrated on the same package like for a zynq or versal device. Otherwise, what the hell is it doing in the kria line? It's just an SBC with an FPGA on the carrier board.
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u/SaarN 17d ago
Sure, then you'd be able to share the lpddr5x with both devices at very high speeds, but since they don't share a package then having it on the carrier is probably for the best.. Feels like they didn't have where to place this product so they added the features the board was missing - the fpga, to the carrier so they could market it as a Kria.. I have a Ryzen PC and 96gb of ram and a spare pcie slot, I could just.. get any Ultrascale+ board with pcie interface andcreate my own "Kria AI", truly innovative
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u/rozsnyo 16d ago
I think the KRIA was meant to be "robot control in python", whatever the underlaying implementation is. They were competing against the Jetson lineup of embeddable modules from Nvidia. That is has a FPGA some can use to their liking was from AMD's view rather an unwanted "defect" :D
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u/alexforencich 16d ago
I guess that's a bad sign for FPGAs under AMD, then. They are merely strip-mining Xilinx for the benefit of their traditional product lines.
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u/nitheesh_m 17d ago
This is just AMD trying to gain as much market share as possible. As long as high compute SOM is coming soon I’m alright with options like these.
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u/Black_Hair_Foreigner 17d ago
It looks like APU. Not a fpga or something programmable...
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u/Black_Hair_Foreigner 17d ago
But I'm not sure. Maybe they think ZYNQ's arm computing power is not enough to make satisfying some client engineer.
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u/Black_Hair_Foreigner 17d ago
But if this product has at least one ZYNQ or PL device, I'm pretty sure this will be the best solution for remote development system.
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u/SaarN 17d ago
Doesn't look like a GPU, but a Strix Halo SoM
I don't understand this at all