There is always something new in technology land, in that respect, it certainly does not disappoint. While the Navi is still a lightyear away, the successor to it might be Arcturus. Arcturus is a large red star and the brightest of the constellation of Boötes.
The news reaches us through Phoronix who discovered the Arcturus name today in their forums as an AMD Linux liaison might have slipped something, he should not have. A reader asked him about the numbers involved in modern AMD GPU codenames like Vega 10, 11, and 20 and a preference for going back to GPU codenames like the days of Northern and Southern Islands. He does mention it as a ‘could be’.
“We are going back to real codenames where possible (ie where it’s not already too late to change), and trying to keep the old “the name vaguely suggests HW generation so it will be easier to remember in the future” model. The first new codename should be Arcturus.”
