Nvidia to support RISC-V processors in latest boost to China’s chip self-sufficiency drive

Jul 22, 2025

Nvidia said it was working to support the RISC-V chip architecture on its CUDA software platform, a move expected to boost the open-source movement that China is betting on as part of its tech self-sufficiency drive. “We are porting CUDA to the RISC-V architecture,” Frans Sijstermans, vice-president of hardware engineering at Nvidia, said at the 2025 RISC-V Summit in Shanghai last week. RISC-V central processing units (CPUs) could then be used as the main application processor in Nvidia systems,...

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