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There have been many reports that Nvidia?s next generation technology will be codenamed Ampere and we want to set one thing straight. The successor of Volta is an AI/ML chip and not a GPU - just like Volta never was.

Many will jump the gun and say well, Volta did ship as a Titan V for $2999 and you can perform cryptocurrency mining with it really well. Since this is HBM 2, and an extremely big core, Nvidia could never bring this to a reasonable $750ish market and would struggle to sell Titan V even at $1,000.

Nvidia wanted to address the Founders/Titan prosumers market and offer them a very fast GPU and that is what Volta is. Volta, as you know by now, shines in machine learning and artificial intelligence thanks to optimized architecture and a bunch of specialized tensor cores. It would made a hell of a GPU but big chunks of the Volta won't do anything for graphics acceleration as they are, quite simply, hardwired for AI tasks. Since Nvidia knows that some people are willing to spend $2,999 to get the Volta for research, it kick-started this market. Nvidia has always been well known for making people pay a ridiculous amount of money for pinnacle technology as Jensen loves the incredible high margins.
Our colleagues around the globe are speculating the release date and most likely the Volta successor will be announced at Nvidia?s GPU technology conference between March 26 - March 29 2018. It will most likely ship much later than that, but hey, at least Nvidia can announce things to come.

The gaming GPU will be launched at its own event, as this has been its practice for many years now. AI and Gaming big GPUs have separate roadmaps as you can make money on two big chips specialized for a given task.

It is hard to imagine that the successor of Volta or Nvidia GPU can be manufactured at 7nm simply as 7nm won?t be available for GPUs in 2018. Nvidia will most likely stick with the reliable 12nm.