The Nvidia Hopper architecture successor may be named after David BLACKWELL

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Nvidia suffered a ransomware attack by a hacker group last week, and more than 1TB of data, including drivers, design drawings, and firmware, was compromised after internal systems were compromised. Although Nvidia has not officially confirmed the incident, it has confirmed to the media that it is under investigation and evaluation. It is rumored that the hacker group is selling the LHR cracking algorithm of GA102/GA104, in order to coerce NVIDIA to remove the relevant restrictions of the GeForce RTX 30 LHR series.

VideoCardz said that it has received a large number of images mentioning Nvidia’s unreleased GPUs, including Ada Lovelace, Hopper, and Blackwell. Although there is no mention of the purpose of the corresponding architecture, it can be guessed that the Ada Lovelace architecture is the GeForce RTX 40 series that will be launched this year based on the information previously circulated, Hopper and Blackwell architectures are used for accelerated computing in data centers.


The Ada Lovelace architecture will replace the current Ampere architecture, including AD102, AD103, AD104, AD106, AD107, and AD10B GPUs, but the specific configuration of each GPU is unclear. The Hopper architecture includes two GPUs, the GH100 and the GH202. There are rumors that GH202 is actually a gaming GPU, but there is no way to confirm it. The Blackwell architecture also has two GPUs, the GB100 and GB102. The Blackwell architecture is the successor to the Hopper architecture, and it is speculated that its name may be derived from the late American statistician and mathematician David Harold Blackwell (1919–2010).

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