Hot Chips 2026: CUDA Targets RISC-V โ€“ By Chester Lam

(chipsandcheese.com)

64 points | by rbanffy 5 hours ago ago

8 comments

  • LogTrim 3 hours ago

    The interesting part is that this is less "CUDA now runs on RISC-V" and more "Nvidia is defining what a CUDA-capable RISC-V server has to look like."

    That could end up being a pretty influential de facto server profile for the architecture.

  • camel-cdr 4 hours ago
  • einpoklum 38 minutes ago

    CUDA is proprietary technology, guarded by patents and mostly closed-source. And its originator, NVIDIA, while being a member of the Khronos consortium, and technically supporting OpenCL, makes it much more difficult for you to do anything in OpenCL than in CUDA - even though it is sometimes almosy zero effort to enable some OpenCL equivalent (e.g. : Half-precision types. They exist in CUDA; in OpenCL on NVIDIA - you can't have them).

    So, live with CUDA on other hardware? No thank you.

  • nozzlegear 5 hours ago

    All these AI do is eat hot chip and lie

  • djmips 2 hours ago

    hot chips. hot planet.

  • varispeed 2 hours ago

    Just make more RAM.