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

(chipsandcheese.com)

62 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.
camel-cdr 4 hours ago

related: https://www.sifive.com/development-platforms/sifive-bigsky-s...

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- boredatoms 51 minutes ago
  
  When does bigsky ship?
nozzlegear 4 hours ago

All these AI do is eat hot chip and lie

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- carabiner 4 hours ago
  
  Any fab born after 2005
einpoklum 18 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.
djmips 2 hours ago

hot chips. hot planet.
varispeed 1 hour ago

Just make more RAM.