The first rumors about Nvidia Hopper appeared some time ago. That is no longer a rumor and is exclusively in the filtration area, although the only thing confirmed at this point is the codename: Nvidia Hopper.
Nvidia Hopper is the next generation of GPUs
Nvidia seems to have registered the name Nvidia Hopper along with another code name called Aerial. The trademarks appeared at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
It is said that the Nvidia Hopper generation of GPUs could use MCM technology to revolutionize the GPU world by combining multiple cores instead of using a single chip as before. This is similar to what is already happening in the CPU market, where AMD is one of the most important leaders.
The latest rumors indicate that NVIDIA Hopper would be a new GPU with MCM technology
The name of Nvidia Hopper architecture is based on Grace Hopper, who was one of the pioneers of computer science and one of the first Harvard Mark 1 programmers as well as the inventor of the first linkers. It also popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages, which led to the development of COBOL, a high-level language still in use today. During the Second World War, he assisted in the efforts of the American War.
MCM technology: are Nvidia’s multi-chip GPUs on the way?
An MCM-based design may be the next step in the development of the GPU, considering that we are now limited by the size of the node. Architecture improvements and MCM technology design are the next logical frontier, and since AMD has already deployed them on the CPU front, it makes sense that GPUs are the next step in their big plan, which would explain why NVIDIA wanted to take the lead in all this and beat them all. The leak came from a known Twitter account and the tweets were deleted, but not before Twitterati discovered and released it (at 3DCenter.org).
The multichip structure will also appear for the GPU
Since this approach is already offered for Intel and AMD CPUs, it is logical that the multichip structure will also appear for the GPU sooner or later. This allows you to increase the performance of the graphics subsystem and improve the game and professional aspects of the work.
As for Aerial, it is a software development kit for 5G networks with GPU accelerators. This is how NVIDIA wants to enter a new market for high-speed communications.
There are no release dates yet for the end products.
We’ll see what happens, at the moment Nvidia is developing the Ampere architecture for next year, so Nvidia Hopper could not appear until 2021 or later.