Plucky startup Bolt Graphics still wants to use RISC-V to compete with Nvidia, AMD in AI and beyond — and given CUDA's port on RISC-V, there may be something there

Bolt Graphics' Zeus.

• Bolt Graphics is building a RISC-V based GPU to challenge Nvidia
• CUDA support on RISC-V could lower software barriers for alternative accelerators
• Zeus targets path tracing, HPC, and large memory workloads over traditional shaders

Bolt Graphics is pressing ahead with its plan to challenge Nvidia and AMD by building a graphics processor around a RISC-V controlled architecture rather than a conventional GPU design.