Huang Renxun explains how the current CPU and GPU naming principles come from!

[Gearbest News]Recently, after NVIDIA launched its new 40 series graphics cards, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang explained to everyone the naming principles of current CPU and GPU products. He said that the CPU code-named “Grace” and the GPU code-named “Hopper” launched this year are named after the famous computer scientist Grace Hopper respectively, and subsequent GPU products for the consumer market will be named “Ada Lovelace”.

Jen-Hsun Huang

Huang Renxun said that he will follow this method in the future and continue to name products launched in the future. He explained: “In the past, NVIDIA did use the names of famous computer scientists in history as its product names. In the past, because the company mainly developed GPU products, it mostly used the scientists’ surnames as product names. However, the “Grace” CPU launched this year is because it belongs to different types of products, so it uses the names of scientists as product names. Future products will also be named according to this principle.

As for the past, in 2018, GPUs named “Volta” appeared in the supercomputing field, and professional graphics cards for creators' market needs used “Turing” as the code name for GPUs. Huang Renxun explained that it mainly depends on the GPU design positioning at the time. Individual code names are usually used for different market positioning products as a distinction between products.

In addition, the announcement that the super car computer “Thor” will directly replace the original “Atlan” product positioning is to allow designs using the “Grace” CPU and “Hopper” GPU to enter the market faster, thereby accelerating the growth of the autonomous vehicle market.

magicCubeFunc.write_ad(“dingcai_top_0”);