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Other chip vendors must implement an equivalent backend themselves to map PyTorch operators onto their own instruction sets and runtimes; such backends are usually called "device backends" or "private use backends" and need to cover multiple layers including operator registration, memory allocators, communication libraries, and graph compilation integration.
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