Nvidia brings CUDA to RISC-V, opening new front in AI compute

In China, Nvidia shows how CUDA can run on a RISC-V host—and signals it’s ready for a more open AI future.

July 22, 2025

David Harold

Nvidia has added official RISC-V support to its CUDA platform, allowing developers to build AI systems with fully open instruction set architectures. The move was announced in China—where interest in RISC-V is rapidly accelerating for both economic and geopolitical reasons. At the RISC-V Summit July 16–19, 2025, in Shanghai, China, at Zhangjiang Science Hall, Nvidia quietly dropped what might be a major signal of things to come: CUDA now supports RISC-V CPUs as host processors. That puts RISC-V on the same footing as x86 and Arm for managing GPU-accelerated workloads, opening the door to fully open ISA AI and HPC

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