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+# Installation
+
+vLLM supports the following hardware platforms:
+
+- [GPU](gpu.md)
+    - [NVIDIA CUDA](gpu.md#nvidia-cuda)
+    - [AMD ROCm](gpu.md#amd-rocm)
+    - [Intel XPU](gpu.md#intel-xpu)
+- [CPU](cpu.md)
+    - [Intel/AMD x86](cpu.md#intelamd-x86)
+    - [ARM AArch64](cpu.md#arm-aarch64)
+    - [Apple silicon](cpu.md#apple-silicon)
+    - [IBM Z (S390X)](cpu.md#ibm-z-s390x)
+
+## Hardware Plugins
+
+The backends below live **outside** the main `vllm` repository and follow the
+[Hardware-Pluggable RFC](../../design/plugin_system.md).
+
+| Accelerator | PyPI / package | Repository |
+|-------------|----------------|------------|
+| Google TPU | `tpu-inference` | <https://github.com/vllm-project/tpu-inference> |
+| Ascend NPU | `vllm-ascend` | <https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend> |
+| Intel Gaudi (HPU) | N/A, install from source | <https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-gaudi> |
+| MetaX MACA GPU | N/A, install from source | <https://github.com/MetaX-MACA/vLLM-metax> |
+| Rebellions ATOM / REBEL NPU | `vllm-rbln` | <https://github.com/rebellions-sw/vllm-rbln> |
+| IBM Spyre AIU | `vllm-spyre` | <https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-spyre> |
+| Cambricon MLU | `vllm-mlu` | <https://github.com/Cambricon/vllm-mlu> |
+| Baidu Kunlun XPU | N/A, install from source | <https://github.com/baidu/vLLM-Kunlun> |