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Something to do with Grace Hopper being an actual person (although she is deceased) and thus not being to trademark the entire name?
by mk_stjames 3y ago
Something to do with Grace Hopper being an actual person (although she is deceased) and thus not being to trademark the entire name?
- jabl 3y agoHopper is the name of the GPU architecture, and Grace is the name of the CPU. Combining them in a device gets you a "Grace Hopper" superchip. (And yes, I'd guess the codenames where chosen back in the day with an eye towards combining them in the same device.)
- jsheard 3y agoThere's one funny exception to the rule of Nvidia naming their GPU architectures after just the surname of a famous scientist - they always refer to the "Ada Lovelace" architecture using her full name, presumably to avoid association with the other famous Lovelace.
- ConceptJunkie 3y agoI think it would be interesting to compare this with the Apple BHA. Although in this case, Admiral Hopper's family would have to take up the fight.