Last November, we heard the first rumors about Hopper , NVIDIA's upcoming architecture. This new architecture was expected to arrive in 2021, following the Ampere architecture that replaced Turing. Hopper has now been registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Along with this registration, Aerial, a development software for GPU acceleration of 5G connections, was also registered.
The choice was not accidental and the name refers to Grace Hopper. For those who do not know her, she was a renowned computer scientist and American military. It was she who developed the first linkers and later programmed the Harvard Mark I, the first electromechanical computer.
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Hopper will mean a major change in the design of your GPUs. This new structure will be based on the MCM design, something that has been used by AMD for more than two years. NVIDIA and Intel have seen the benefits of this type of design and are working on implementing it in their products.
It seems clear that monolithic CPU and GPU chips have their days more than numbered. NVIDIA will at least keep this monolithic system for one more generation, at least, in the gaming market. We do not know if they first used this technology for solutions for the professional segment and for AI and then for the domestic segment.
On the type of structure that NVIDIA will develop there is no data, at least for now. AMD makes use of several chips interconnected by Infinity Fabric. Intel will use a stacking system of chips communicated through its EMIB technology.
NVIDIA is possibly working on its own technology, which should be highly efficient. GPUs are more complex than a processor and the work they do is often more intensive in terms of polygon counts. We will see what solution they develop or if they license a solution available on the market.
Source: VZ
