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I am curious how RISC-V GPGPU development would affect Nvidia’s support for the platform. So far they seemed to be supportive. They’ve contributed NVDLA. They’r
by MeteOzturk 7y ago
I am curious how RISC-V GPGPU development would affect Nvidia’s support for the platform. So far they seemed to be supportive. They’ve contributed NVDLA. They’re a member of the foundation. It’s not far-fetched to think a Jetson with high performance RISC cores is already in development. I hope they won’t back out if they deem a strong edge platform competitor is not in their best interest.
- zozbot234 7y agonVidia are not using RISC-V for their "high-performance" GPGPU cores. Their interest in RISC-V is only for support cores, so GPGPU support is neither here nor there.
- MeteOzturk 7y agoWhat Nvidia brings to the table with both the Jetson line and the Tegra line is precisely those GPGPU's. The ARM parts are pretty standard I believe. What I meant was if there was enough interest and development around an open-source architecture for GPGPU's and Neural processing it would have the potential to become a competitor to Nvidia's offering. I am confident it would take years to become a worthy competitor in the desktop and server markets. Edge and portable devices I am not so sure.
- microcolonel 7y ago> The ARM parts are pretty standard I believe. Not sure exactly what you're saying here, but NVIDIA's cores are bottom-up custom, and they are very unusual.
- conradev 7y agoThe older Jetson units featured standard Cortex-A57 processors and the newer units have their custom processors (Denver and Carmel architectures)