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Vx – One Language, Every Chip
Summary
Vx is a systems language that makes the location of data—CPU, GPU, NPU, etc.—part of the type system, turning many runtime memory bugs into compile‑time errors. It uses declarative machine files and a parallel MLIR frontend to verify placements and generate deterministic code for heterogeneous targets.
- Data‑location is a type: a host dereferencing a device pointer is a compile error, not a segfault.
- Machine files describe memory hierarchy and interconnect, letting the compiler admit or reject placements before codegen.
- Explicit `transfer()` calls and SMT‑backed checks enforce capacity, topology reachability, and linear usage.
- The frontend emits flat 256‑bit identifiers, enabling lock‑free parallel compilation with byte‑identical MLIR output.
Compiler engineers and performance‑critical developers building across CPUs, GPUs, NPUs should care because Vx moves many classic runtime bugs into compile‑time guarantees.
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