I find another aspect of this announcement VERY interesting: the SPIR-V immediate language. I haven't finished reading the PDF [0] yet, but it looks like LLVM,

I find another aspect of this announcement VERY interesting: the SPIR-V immediate language. I haven't finished reading the PDF [0] yet, but it looks like LLVM, but for hardware. [0]: https://www.khronos.org/registry/spir-v/specs/1.0/SPIRV.pdf https://www.khronos.org/registry/spir-v/specs/1.0/SPIRV.pdf