Nvidia may delay transition to "Hopper"

With great effort, the very first “Ampere” circuits have reached consumers before it is time to look ahead to the next generation. Already in 2019, rumors appeared that a radical change in design thinking at Nvidia was on the doorstep with the architecture “Hopper” – here a modular design built of several Multi-Chip Modules (MCM) would take place.

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Now Hopper and the MCM idea are rumored to have been postponed to the future, as Videocardz and the Twitter leak @ Kopite7kimi reports that Nvidia’s first 5 nanometer circuit gets the prefix AD in the code name, which rhymes badly with Hopper. Instead, the name is believed to stand for Ada Lovelace, a British mathematician who previously appeared on the company’s “Company of Heroes” shirt during the GTC 2018 developer conference.

The print on the “Company of Heroes” shirt

Further details are not yet known – graphics circuits based on Lovelace may become exclusive for calculation cards, although Kopite7kimi believes that manufacturing of 5 nanometers is in any case a given. That this is the case is of course no big deal as “Ampere” is already produced at 8 nanometers at Samsung and soon also at TSMC.

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At which contract manufacturer any “Lovelace” circuits end up, and when, remains to be seen – but Nvidia is expected to want improvement from its Korean weapon carrier Samsung at 8 nanometers so as not to risk a repeat of the “Ampere” launch with meager access. New products are expected no later than 2021 or 2022 at the earliest.