Hot Chips 2026: CUDA Targets RISC-V – By Chester Lam

(chipsandcheese.com)

60 points | by rbanffy 4 hours ago

6 comments

  • LogTrim 2 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.

  • einpoklum 9 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.

  • camel-cdr 3 hours ago
  • nozzlegear 4 hours ago
    All these AI do is eat hot chip and lie
    • carabiner 3 hours ago
      Any fab born after 2005
  • djmips 1 hour ago
    hot chips. hot planet.
  • varispeed 1 hour ago
    Just make more RAM.