alt.hn

8/24/2026 at 4:52:01 PM

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

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/hot-chips-2026-cuda-targets-risc

by rbanffy

8/24/2026 at 7:24:29 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.

by LogTrim

8/25/2026 at 12:10:32 AM

Beyond the significant PCI-e requirements, I'm tickled pink that many of the server platform requirements are "do what x86 does"... ACPI, UEFI, a TPM. I hope they do a better job with standards compliance than some of the shadier Wintel OEMs!

by nxobject

8/25/2026 at 1:09:11 AM

And Nvidia is big enough that they could impose some order on the ecosystem that the ecosystem so far has either been unable or unwilling to impose on itself. The wild west of one-offs can continue to make their application-specific designs while everyone else will presumably benefit from a reasonably standardized platform.

by classichasclass

8/24/2026 at 5:19:43 PM

All these AI do is eat hot chip and lie

by nozzlegear

8/24/2026 at 5:45:23 PM

Any fab born after 2005

by carabiner

8/24/2026 at 7:46:14 PM

hot chips. hot planet.

by djmips

8/24/2026 at 8:32:14 PM

Just make more RAM.

by varispeed

8/24/2026 at 9:33:30 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.

by einpoklum

8/25/2026 at 1:25:45 AM

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by Ozzie-D

8/24/2026 at 10:43:41 PM

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