diff --git a/candle-kernels/src/bitwise.cu b/candle-kernels/src/bitwise.cu
deleted file mode 100644
index c93f0e7aa..000000000
--- a/candle-kernels/src/bitwise.cu
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-#include "cuda_utils.cuh"
-#include<stdint.h>
-
-#define BITWISE_OP(TYPENAME, FN_NAME, OP) \
-extern "C" __global__ void FN_NAME(const TYPENAME *d_in1, const TYPENAME *d_in2, TYPENAME *d_out, \
-                                    const uint32_t N) { \
-  const int idx = blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x; \
-  if (idx < N) { \
-    d_out[idx] = d_in1[idx] OP d_in2[idx]; \
-  } \
-} \
-
-BITWISE_OP(uint32_t, bitwise_or_u32, |)
-BITWISE_OP(uint32_t, bitwise_and_u32, &)
-BITWISE_OP(uint32_t, bitwise_xor_u32, ^)
-
-BITWISE_OP(uint8_t, bitwise_or_u8, |)
-BITWISE_OP(uint8_t, bitwise_and_u8, &)
-BITWISE_OP(uint8_t, bitwise_xor_u8, ^)
-
-BITWISE_OP(int64_t, bitwise_or_i64, |)
-BITWISE_OP(int64_t, bitwise_and_i64, &)
-BITWISE_OP(int64_t, bitwise_xor_i64, ^)