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

64 points - today at 4:52 PM

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  • LogTrim

    today at 7:24 PM

    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

      today at 5:48 PM

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

        • boredatoms

          today at 8:59 PM

          When does bigsky ship?

      • nozzlegear

        today at 5:19 PM

        All these AI do is eat hot chip and lie

          • carabiner

            today at 5:45 PM

            Any fab born after 2005

        • einpoklum

          today at 9:33 PM

          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

            today at 7:46 PM

            hot chips. hot planet.

            • varispeed

              today at 8:32 PM

              Just make more RAM.