AMD
Open source activity
As of Nov 6, 2026
Nearly all of AMD's recent open-source activity sits inside ROCm, its CUDA-alternative software stack, rather than under the AMD org name itself. The standout is a structural one: ROCm consolidated what used to be a sprawl of separate repos into unified "super repos" — rocm-systems and rocm-libraries — a restructuring that suggests AMD is still actively simplifying ROCm's packaging rather than treating the stack as finished.
On top of that consolidation sits aiter, an "AI Tensor Engine for ROCm" aimed at inference-side acceleration, and TheRock, a lighter-weight build system for HIP and ROCm meant to lower the barrier to actually compiling the stack. Combined with ROCgdb (a ROCm-specific fork of GDB for GPU debugging), the overall picture is a software stack still being actively re-architected for ease of adoption — the kind of foundational tooling work a hardware challenger has to keep doing to make its chips usable without CUDA.
Most active repositories
| Repository | Description | Language | Stars | Last pushed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROCm/rocm-systems | super repo for rocm systems projects | C++ | 552 | Nov 6, 2026 |
| ROCm/rocm-libraries | super repo for rocm libraries | Assembly | 460 | Nov 6, 2026 |
| ROCm/ATOM | AiTer Optimized Model | Python | 205 | Nov 6, 2026 |
| ROCm/aiter | AI Tensor Engine for ROCm | Python | 605 | Nov 6, 2026 |
| ROCm/rocm-cli | ROCm CLI is a command-line tool for setting up and running local AI on AMD GPUs, with a full-screen TUI dashboard for GPU telemetry, model serving, and chat. | Rust | 50 | Nov 6, 2026 |
| ROCm/ROCgdb | This is ROCgdb, the ROCm source-level debugger for Linux, based on GDB, the GNU source-level debugger. | C | 80 | Nov 6, 2026 |
| ROCm/spur | spur your compute | Rust | 138 | Nov 6, 2026 |
| ROCm/mblas-bench | Basic BLAS benchmark for GEMMs | C++ | 4 | Nov 6, 2026 |
| ROCm/FlyDSL | FlyDSL is the Python front‑end of the project: a Flexible Layout Python DSL for expressing tiling, partitioning, data movement, and kernel structure at a high level. | Python | 306 | Nov 6, 2026 |
| amd/gaia | Build AI agents for your PC | Python | 1,616 | Nov 6, 2026 |
| ROCm/cvs | — | Python | 19 | Nov 6, 2026 |
| ROCm/TheRock | The HIP Environment and ROCm Kit - A lightweight open source build system for HIP and ROCm | Python | 1,429 | Nov 6, 2026 |
| ROCm/libhipcxx | The C++ Standard Library for your entire system. | C++ | 30 | Nov 6, 2026 |
| ROCm/axis | AXIS: Agent eXecution Isolation Substrate — secure sandbox runtime for AI agents | Rust | 9 | Nov 6, 2026 |
| ROCm/FastFlowLM | Run LLMs on AMD Ryzen™ AI NPUs in minutes; purpose-built and deeply optimized for the AMD NPUs. | C++ | 2,023 | Nov 6, 2026 |
| ROCm/aorta | — | Python | 11 | Nov 6, 2026 |
| ROCm/composable_kernel | [DEPRECATED] Moved to ROCm/rocm-libraries repo. NOTE: develop branch is maintained as a read-only mirror | C++ | 551 | Nov 6, 2026 |
| ROCm/Quartz | Central CI/CD Data Hub for the ROCm Ecosystem | Python | 1 | Nov 6, 2026 |
| ROCm/mori | Modular RDMA Interface | C++ | 192 | Nov 6, 2026 |
| ROCm/hipSPARSE | [DEPRECATED] Moved to ROCm/rocm-libraries repo | C++ | 68 | Nov 6, 2026 |