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

68 points by rbanffy ago | 8 comments

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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.

nozzlegear |next |previous [-]

All these AI do is eat hot chip and lie

carabiner |root |parent [-]

Any fab born after 2005

camel-cdr |next |previous [-]

boredatoms |root |parent [-]

When does bigsky ship?

einpoklum |next |previous [-]

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 |next |previous [-]

hot chips. hot planet.

varispeed |next |previous [-]

Just make more RAM.

bizstrategy10 |previous [-]

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