NVIDIA registers Hopper and Aerial trademarks

Posted on Monday, December 09 2019 @ 18:38 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

The rumor that NVIDIA's future GPU generation (after Ampere) will be called Hopper gains more credibility as NVIDIA has registered some new trademarks. VideoCardz reports the green team filed trademarks for NVIDIA Hopper and NVIDIA Aerial.

Hopper is believed to be NVIDIA's first MCM GPU architecture, while Aerial is rumoted to be a a software development kit for GPU-accelerated 5G radio access networks (RANs).

On December 4th NVIDIA filed a trademark request at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Just a few days ago, we spotted ‘AERIAL‘ filling, and today ‘HOPPER‘ was officially added as well. We do now know what AERIAL refers to, but HOPPER can’t be a coincidence.

If what Kopite shared on Twitter is true, then this will be NVIDIA’s first multi-chip GPU architecture. The MCM revolution has completely changed the CPU market with AMD’s Ryzen chiplet design. This could very well change the GPU industry the same way.

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