Here is the Technical Intelligence Report for 2026-03-07.

Executive Summary

  • Market Critical: AMD’s discrete GPU market share has collapsed to a historic low of 5% in Q4 2025, while NVIDIA captured 95% of the market driven by RTX 50-series sales.
  • Firmware Development: Significant progress reported on porting open source firmware (Coreboot + openSIL) to consumer AM5 motherboards (MSI PRO B850-P), with a target for upstreaming later this year.
  • Competitor Ecosystem: Intel’s Linux software ecosystem continues to mature with NPU frequency and Xe GPU power monitoring added to standard GNOME utilities for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.

🤖 ROCm Updates & Software

[2026-03-07] 3mdeb Making Progress On AMD Ryzen AM5 Motherboard Port With Coreboot + openSIL

Source: Phoronix

Key takeaway relevant to AMD:

  • Demonstrates active development in replacing proprietary AGESA with openSIL on consumer hardware (AM5), a critical requirement for security-conscious and open-source enterprise clients.
  • Sets the stage for AMD Zen 6 platforms, where openSIL is expected to be the production standard.

Summary:

  • Firmware consulting firm 3mdeb is porting Coreboot and AMD openSIL to the MSI PRO B850-P consumer motherboard.
  • The codebase has been updated to the latest Coreboot standards, with a full release expected later in 2026.

Details:

  • Hardware Target: MSI PRO B850-P (AM5 Ryzen consumer motherboard).
  • Software Stack: 3mdeb is utilizing their downstream “Dasharo” code, which has been re-based from Coreboot 24.12 to Coreboot 25.12.
  • Current Status: The team is currently tackling port configuration. The project remains a “work-in-progress” but is slated for release within the year.
  • Roadmap Implications:
    • Current AMD Phoenix openSIL code is treated as a “proof-of-concept.”
    • Zen 6: Identified as the target generation where openSIL is intended to be production-ready at scale.
  • Upstreaming: 3mdeb plans to upstream all changes to the main Coreboot repository once the port reaches stability.

🤼‍♂️ Market & Competitors

[2026-03-07] Nvidia dominates gaming GPU market with 95 percent share as sales of AMD Radeon graphics plummet to a historical low of 5 percent

Source: Tom’s Hardware

Key takeaway relevant to AMD:

  • AMD Radeon discrete desktop market presence is virtually vanishing (5% share), indicating severe rejection or lack of availability of the RX 9000-series.
  • The integrated GPU (iGPU) market remains AMD’s stronghold, but the lucrative Add-in-Board (AIB) market is now almost a total NVIDIA monopoly.

Summary:

  • Jon Peddie Research (JPR) data for 2025 shows NVIDIA holding 95% of the discrete GPU market, with AMD falling to 5%.
  • Total market shipments increased to 44.28 million units in 2025, largely driven by NVIDIA’s Blackwell architecture (RTX 50-series).

Details:

  • Market Share (Q4 2025):
    • NVIDIA: 95% (Increased from 92% in Q1 2025).
    • AMD: 5% (Decreased from 8% in Q1 2025). This is the lowest share in AMD/ATI history.
    • Intel: 0% gain (Battlemage architecture targeted niches and did not gain significant share).
  • Shipment Volume:
    • Total Industry: 44.28 million units (up from 34.7M in 2024).
    • AMD Volume: Dropped from 0.74 million (Q1) to 0.57 million units (Q4).
  • Product Performance: The report cites that AMD Radeon RX 9000-series GPUs “failed to garner popularity,” potentially due to scarce availability at recommended pricing.
  • 2026 Outlook: JPR predicts a 10% market decline in 2026 due to tariffs, memory prices, and unstable conditions.

[2026-03-07] Resources For GNOME Adds Intel Xe GPU Power Usage & Intel NPU Frequency Reporting

Source: Phoronix

Key takeaway relevant to AMD:

  • Intel is aggressively refining Linux user experience for “Lunar Lake” and “Battlemage,” ensuring granular monitoring tools are available in standard distributions (Ubuntu 26.04).
  • Highlights a gap AMD must ensure is filled for Ryzen AI (NPU) monitoring in standard Linux GUI tools to remain competitive in the Linux developer laptop space.

Summary:

  • The “Resources” system monitor app (GNOME/GTK4) released version 1.10.2 with specific enhancements for modern Intel hardware.
  • Updates focus on NPU visibility and Xe GPU power metrics.

Details:

  • Software Version: Resources 1.10.2.
  • New Intel Features:
    • Xe Driver Support: Power usage monitoring added for Intel GPUs using the Xe kernel driver (default for Lunar Lake iGPUs and Battlemage discrete GPUs).
    • NPU Support: Core frequency monitoring for Intel NPUs added, along with fixes for NPU utilization metrics.
  • OS Context: This application is the default system monitor for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, meaning Intel hardware will have superior out-of-the-box observability compared to hardware lacking these hooks.

📈 GitHub Stats

Category Repository Total Stars 1-Day 7-Day 30-Day
AMD Ecosystem AMD-AGI/GEAK-agent 69 0 +1 +11
AMD Ecosystem AMD-AGI/Primus 76 0 +2 +4
AMD Ecosystem AMD-AGI/TraceLens 63 +1 +4 +6
AMD Ecosystem ROCm/MAD 31 0 0 0
AMD Ecosystem ROCm/ROCm 6,225 0 +25 +85
Compilers openxla/xla 4,049 +2 +26 +82
Compilers tile-ai/tilelang 5,329 -1 +43 +288
Compilers triton-lang/triton 18,572 +3 +75 +218
Google / JAX AI-Hypercomputer/JetStream 415 0 +1 +11
Google / JAX AI-Hypercomputer/maxtext 2,162 0 +8 +32
Google / JAX jax-ml/jax 35,015 +5 +46 +220
HuggingFace huggingface/transformers 157,510 +19 +391 +1340
Inference Serving alibaba/rtp-llm 1,057 -2 +4 +17
Inference Serving efeslab/Atom 336 0 +1 0
Inference Serving llm-d/llm-d 2,585 +4 +44 +135
Inference Serving sgl-project/sglang 24,201 +34 +328 +890
Inference Serving vllm-project/vllm 72,318 +80 +823 +2748
Inference Serving xdit-project/xDiT 2,560 0 +12 +33
NVIDIA NVIDIA/Megatron-LM 15,534 +3 +75 +386
NVIDIA NVIDIA/TransformerEngine 3,187 0 +11 +47
NVIDIA NVIDIA/apex 8,928 0 +2 +17
Optimization deepseek-ai/DeepEP 9,023 +2 +17 +61
Optimization deepspeedai/DeepSpeed 41,758 +2 +55 +211
Optimization facebookresearch/xformers 10,362 +2 +9 +37
PyTorch & Meta meta-pytorch/monarch 985 0 +5 +27
PyTorch & Meta meta-pytorch/torchcomms 345 0 +3 +18
PyTorch & Meta meta-pytorch/torchforge 632 0 +8 +21
PyTorch & Meta pytorch/FBGEMM 1,536 -2 +2 +11
PyTorch & Meta pytorch/ao 2,721 +1 +16 +53
PyTorch & Meta pytorch/audio 2,834 0 +1 +12
PyTorch & Meta pytorch/pytorch 98,018 +19 +194 +842
PyTorch & Meta pytorch/torchtitan 5,111 +1 +14 +73
PyTorch & Meta pytorch/vision 17,546 +2 +11 +49
RL & Post-Training THUDM/slime 4,605 +10 +122 +929
RL & Post-Training radixark/miles 956 +6 +35 +119
RL & Post-Training volcengine/verl 19,694 +21 +225 +689