Release2026-08-24
At the Hot Chips conference, Nvidia described plans to extend CUDA, its GPU programming software, to systems built on the open RISC-V processor architecture, which until now supported only x86 and Arm host chips. Nvidia set a long list of server-grade hardware requirements that almost no existing RISC-V hardware meets. It is working with chip designer SiFive, which planned to demonstrate a system running CUDA at the event.
What changed
CUDA supported only x86-64 and Arm-based host processors.
What it unlocks
Pairing Nvidia GPUs with RISC-V server processors for GPU computing work, once qualifying hardware exists.
- requirements fit within two pages
What you need to act on it
- a server-grade RISC-V chip meeting Nvidia's profile, platform, ACPI and PCIe coherency requirements
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