Special interest groups at RISC-V will expand their focus on extensions for shaders and advanced matrix operations next year.
As RISC-V has emerged as a potential competitor to both x86 and Arm, discussions are now being had about creating GPUs for chip designs based on the new architecture. According to RISC-V CTO Mark Himelstein who spoke with The Register, special interest groups will expand their focus on extensions for shaders and advanced matrix operations which are key for both AI and machine learning next year. RISC-V International, the non-profit organization that developed and supports the free and open RISC instruction set architecture, has a number of interest groups which develop extensions that can be added to chip designs.
