Posts by Dominic Widdows
ROCm 7.9 Technology Preview: ROCm Core SDK and TheRock Build System
- 20 October 2025
ROCm Core SDK 7.9.0 is a technology preview release built by TheRock. The Core SDK is a slimmed down version of the traditional ROCm release, focusing on foundational components for running high performance AI workloads on AMD GPUs. TheRock introduces a streamlined uniform system for building and testing these core components. TheRock manages dependencies between packages, so changes affecting several ROCm components can be coordinated automatically. Python releases built using TheRock can be easily installed in virtual environments, so developers can try new ROCm versions and features quickly without making system changes.
Announcing MONAI 1.0.0 for AMD ROCm: Breakthrough AI Acceleration for Medical Imaging Models on AMD Instinct™ GPUs
- 07 October 2025
Today, AMD is thrilled to announce MONAI 1.0.0 for AMD ROCm, now available to the community as part of the ROCm-LS Early Access release. In this blog you will learn how to use MONAI to load an analyze medical images, and see results from more advanced case studies.
Benchmarking Reasoning Models: From Tokens to Answers
- 24 July 2025
This blog shows you how to benchmark large language models’ reasoning tasks by distinguishing between mere token generation and genuine problem-solving. You will learn the importance of configuring models like Qwen3 with “thinking mode” enabled, how standard benchmarks can produce misleading results, why reasoning requires more than just generating tokens quickly, and how to build evaluations that reflect the model’s true problem-solving capabilities. Sounds interesting? Let’s dive right in!