There Will Not Be Official ROCm Support For The Radeon RX 9070 Series On Launch Day

One of the items I was most curious about going into the Radeon RX 9070 briefings was about ROCm support for RDNA4 GPUs... In a briefing otherwise dominated by Windows-based gaming and Windows driver improvements for RDNA4 GPUs, during the Q&A I asked a question about ROCm support for RDNA4. The answer basically amounted to that it's coming but not for launch day. Admittedly, given all the talk in recent months around AMD working on (ROCm) software improvements and better engaging with the developer community, etc, I had personally hoped that during the RDNA4 briefings there was going to be some (miraculous) announcement of same-day ROCm support and better commitment to ROCm support on their consumer GPUs or something to that effect.