Nvidia projected to ship roughly a billion RISC-V cores in its products by year's end

Nvidia will ship one billion RISC-V cores by year's end.

: Nvidia is integrating RISC-V architecture into its products, reaching an impressive milestone of shipping around a billion cores by the end of 2024. The open ISA has replaced Nvidia's proprietary Falcon MCUs since 2015, highlighted at the RISC-V Summit. Nvidia's custom RISC-V cores, featuring over 20 extensions, are used for various control tasks.

Nvidia is set to ship nearly a billion RISC-V cores by the end of the year, emphasizing its integration of the open standard RISC-V architecture. Since 2015, the company has replaced its proprietary Falcon MCUs, embedding RISC-V-based cores into its GPUs for function-level control tasks and other applications.

At the RISC-V Summit, Nvidia detailed its approach, revealing that each chip contains between 10 to 40 RISC-V cores. These cores have been crucial in offloading GPU initialization tasks, reducing CPU use, and can support multiple remote users on a single GPU unit in cloud settings.

The Swiss-based non-profit, RISC-V International, has overseen the ISA's development since 2019, following its inception at the University of California, Berkeley in 2010. The RISC-V architecture, freely available under Creative Commons or BSD license, has encouraged widespread global innovation in chip design.

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