SoftwareFramework

ROCm

ROCm is a framework maintained by AMD1 2. Its source code is partly available or requires approval2 6; licensed under the MIT License (most ROCm components, including HIP, rocBLAS, and MIOpen)2, the Apache License 2.0 (aomp, rocThrust, llvm-project/flang)2, and the Apache License 2.0 with LLVM Exceptions (hipThreads, libhipcxx)2.

ROCm is AMD's open software stack for GPU-accelerated computing on AMD GPUs. Its Core SDK includes the HIP runtime and programming interface, compilers including LLVM, math and deep learning libraries such as rocBLAS and MIOpen, the RCCL communication library, and profiling, debugging, and monitoring tools. Since version 7.14 it has been built and released through TheRock, AMD's open build and release system; version 10.1.0 was released on October 5, 2026.1 3 6Fact reviewed Oct 8, 2026

Documentation: ROCm documentation (external site: rocm.docs.amd.com)
Release notes: ROCm 10.1.0 release notes (external site: rocm.docs.amd.com)
License: ROCm licenses (external site: rocm.docs.amd.com)
Repository: TheRock (build and release system) (external site: github.com)
Documentation: Compatibility matrix (external site: rocm.docs.amd.com)

Last reviewedOct 8, 2026Entry updated Oct 8, 2026Documented release Unknown

Availability and license

Overall availability

Public

Open-source components are released through public GitHub repositories, packages on repo.radeon.com, and other channels. AMD keeps proprietary products only on repo.radeon.com, in a separate subdirectory, and distributes ROCprof Trace Decoder and the AOCC CPU optimizations in binary form only.2

Availability fact review: Oct 8, 2026

Availability is separate from permission: read the license before using or redistributing.

MIT License (most ROCm components, including HIP, rocBLAS, and MIOpen) (external site: rocm.docs.amd.com)2
Applies to: Code · SPDX MIT · on the rubric’s OSI-approved software-license list · fact reviewed Oct 8, 2026
Plain-language guide to the MIT License
Apache License 2.0 (aomp, rocThrust, llvm-project/flang) (external site: rocm.docs.amd.com)2
Applies to: Code · SPDX Apache-2.0 · on the rubric’s OSI-approved software-license list · fact reviewed Oct 8, 2026
Plain-language guide to the Apache License 2.0
Apache License 2.0 with LLVM Exceptions (hipThreads, libhipcxx) (external site: rocm.docs.amd.com)2
Applies to: Code · SPDX Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception · fact reviewed Oct 8, 2026
Plain-language guide to the Apache License 2.0 with LLVM Exceptions
University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License (Comgr, ROCR-Runtime, ROCm-Device-Libs, rocminfo, ROCR Debug Agent) (external site: rocm.docs.amd.com)2
Applies to: Code · SPDX NCSA · fact reviewed Oct 8, 2026
BSD 2-Clause License (rocSOLVER) (external site: rocm.docs.amd.com)2
Applies to: Code · SPDX BSD-2-Clause · on the rubric’s OSI-approved software-license list · fact reviewed Oct 8, 2026
Plain-language guide to the BSD 2-Clause License
GNU General Public License v3.0 (ROCgdb) (external site: rocm.docs.amd.com)2
Applies to: Code · custom license (no SPDX identifier) · fact reviewed Oct 8, 2026
GPL 2.0 with Linux-syscall-note (ROCK-Kernel-Driver) (external site: rocm.docs.amd.com)2
Applies to: Code · custom license (no SPDX identifier) · fact reviewed Oct 8, 2026
Custom licenses (hipCUB, RCCL) (external site: rocm.docs.amd.com)2
Applies to: Code · custom license (no SPDX identifier) · fact reviewed Oct 8, 2026
MIT License (ROCm repository, mainly documentation) (external site: rocm.docs.amd.com)2
Applies to: Documentation · SPDX MIT · on the rubric’s OSI-approved software-license list · fact reviewed Oct 8, 2026
Plain-language guide to the MIT License

AMD licenses ROCm per component. Its license page lists each component's terms, says that components may include third-party code under additional licenses, and says the MIT license on the ROCm repository covers what is mainly documentation. ROCprof Trace Decoder and the AOCC CPU optimizations are binary-only and governed by separate license agreements. The GPL entries are recorded without SPDX identifiers because the page does not say whether "only" or "or later" terms apply.2Fact reviewed Oct 8, 2026

Component reuse rights

A readable or downloadable component is not automatically reusable. These indicators concern recorded license evidence, not system certification.

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Public materials checklist

Items for a framework under USASI rubric v0.2. Unknown means unassessed or insufficient evidence.

Public materials checklist for ROCm
Item	Status	Notes and evidence
Source codeIs the source code publicly readable?	Partial	Open-source components are in public repositories, and TheRock provides a CMake super-project for building ROCm from source. Two components are distributed in binary form only.2 6
DocumentationIs user documentation published?	Public	AMD's documentation portal has release notes, a compatibility matrix, installation guides, and a ROCm handbook with programming and optimization guides.1 3 4
InstallationAre installation instructions or packages publicly available?	Public	AMD documents installation through Linux package managers, the amdgpu-install script (for Radeon and Ryzen), Python wheels, tarballs, and a runfile installer. TheRock's README says a source build needs about 200 GB of free disk space and can take hours.5 6
Supported platformsAre supported operating systems or hardware documented?	Public	The compatibility matrix lists supported AMD Instinct, Radeon, and Ryzen devices. The installation guide covers Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, Oracle Linux, Rocky Linux, and SLES, native Windows 11, and a WSL2 technical preview.4 5
Release statusAre versioned releases published?	Public	Versioned releases with release notes; ROCm Core SDK 10.1.0 was released on 2026-10-05 and tagged in the TheRock repository.3 7

What it is useful for

Programming and running AI and high-performance computing workloads on AMD Instinct, Radeon, and Ryzen GPUs. The 10.1.0 release notes list support for PyTorch 2.14.0, JAX 0.11.1, vLLM 0.29.0, SGLang 0.5.18, and MIGraphX 2.18, and drop support for TensorFlow 2.19.1.1 3Fact reviewed Oct 8, 2026

Run and use notes

Documented facts only. No hardware or performance claims are made without a cited source and stated assumptions.

Release and build instructions moved to TheRock starting with ROCm 7.14. The former ROCm/ROCm GitHub repository now appears as ROCm/legacy-rocm-build, and AMD's documentation includes a transition guide from the legacy release stream.6 8 1
The 10.1.0 release notes describe added support for Ubuntu 26.04.1 and Ubuntu 24.04.5 and for SR-IOV GPU virtualization on several Instinct and Radeon PRO GPUs; the compatibility matrix is the reference for a given device and operating system.3 4

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In the news

Dated, sourced updates in this catalog's news that mention this entry.

Aug 26, 2026 · Release
AMD releases ROCm Core SDK 10.0.0 with updated framework support and breaking AMD SMI changes
AMD published ROCm Core SDK 10.0.0 on August 26, 2026, as a release in the TheRock repository, which the release notes say has been ROCm's build and release system since ROCm 7.14. The notes say the release focuses on AI inference, developer tooling and profiling, and that it enables support for PyTorch 2.13.0, JAX 0.11.0 and 0.10.2, vLLM 0.27.0, SGLang 0.5.15, TensorFlow 2.21, MIGraphX 2.17 and ONNX Runtime 1.27.0. HIP adds inclusive and exclusive scan APIs to its cooperative groups library. The AMD SMI library has breaking changes: its major version is now 27.0.0, so software linked against libamd_smi.so.26 must be relinked. USASI has not tested this release.
- AMD
- ROCm

U.S. eligibility

Project eligibility rests on documented governing or maintaining entities, not on contributors.

Eligible · basis: U.S.-governed project

AMD's license page states that ROCm is released by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. is a Delaware corporation whose Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 27, 2026 gives its address as Santa Clara, California, on the cover page.2 9

Assessed Oct 8, 2026

Sources

1.
What is ROCm? (external site: rocm.docs.amd.com)
AMD · Documentation · accessed Oct 8, 2026
2.
ROCm licenses (external site: rocm.docs.amd.com)
AMD · License · accessed Oct 8, 2026
3.
ROCm Core SDK 10.1.0 release notes (external site: rocm.docs.amd.com)
AMD · Release notes · published Oct 5, 2026 · accessed Oct 8, 2026
4.
ROCm 10.1.0 compatibility matrix (external site: rocm.docs.amd.com)
AMD · Documentation · accessed Oct 8, 2026
5.
Install AMD ROCm 10.1.0 (external site: rocm.docs.amd.com)
AMD · Documentation · accessed Oct 8, 2026
6.
ROCm/TheRock README (external site: raw.githubusercontent.com)
AMD, ROCm (GitHub) · Repository · accessed Oct 8, 2026
7.
TheRock release therock-10.1 (GitHub API) (external site: api.github.com)
AMD, ROCm (GitHub) · Release notes · published Oct 5, 2026 · accessed Oct 8, 2026
8.
ROCm/ROCm repository metadata (GitHub API) (external site: api.github.com)
GitHub · Repository · accessed Oct 8, 2026
9.
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 27, 2026, cover page (XBRL viewer) (external site: sec.gov)
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (via U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR) · Filing · accessed Oct 8, 2026

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@misc{usasi_rocm,
  author = {{USASI}},
  title = {ROCm},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  howpublished = {\url{https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/open/rocm/}},
  note = {United States of America Superintelligence. Last updated 2026-10-08}
}

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