NVIDIA has recently been hacked, if you're not aware. And the hackers have reportedly uncovered information about a handful of upcoming GPU architectures, including the RTX 4000 series codenamed "Ada Lovelace."
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According to Tom's Hardware, the South American hacker group calling themselves LAPSU$ stumbled upon the information when they made off with 1TB worth of data from their recent attack on NVIDIA. But it's not just the Lovelace GPUs that they found references for, as they also discovered tidbits regarding the succeeding Hopper and Blackwell GPUs.
Here's what was "discovered" about Lovelace. According to the data stolen by the NVIDIA hackers, it has been "confirmed" as the next gaming architecture to replace the RTX 3000 series, codenamed Ampere. The data they acquired refers to the chips as "Ada," which is the codename that outlets have been using to refer to the RTX 4000 series for a while now.
Aside from the codename, the NVIDIA hackers also apparently discovered that there will be a total of six chips in the series: the AD102, AD103, AD104, AD106, AD107, and AD10B.
VideoCardz took notice of the AD10B name for the last mentioned chip, which is a different style (in the past, Team Green would have labeled it AD108 after AD107). But while the silicon names have been leaked, there remains no indication of which ones here are the entry-level GPUs, and which are the higher-end ones.
To round things up, Hopper and Blackwell are shaping up to be data center GPUs not meant for gaming. The NVIDIA hack showed a total of four silicons: the GH100 and GH102 for Hopper, and the GB100 and GB102 for Blackwell. But according to industry leaker Kopite7kimi, these GPUs might well be gaming-focused as well, though there's no way to confirm such a claim yet.
Updates On The NVIDIA Hack
Despite being the target of a cyberattack, Team Green seemed to remain steadfast and responded in an unexpected way: by actually hacking the hackers back.
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TechSpot reports that the company managed to effectively steal its stolen data back, as mentioned by the hackers themselves. Team Green managed to get inside the hackers' network via an unexpected backdoor, which was due to the group leaving one of its virtual machines within the NVIDIA mobile device management program.
However, it didn't seem to faze them much, as they reportedly had a copy of the stolen data. And it's not just the GPU information that they claim to have in their possession.
According to WCCFTech, the NVIDIA hackers also got their hands on the bypass software for the Light Hash Rate (LHR) graphics cards, as well as GPU drivers, firmware, and even sensitive employee data. They've threatened to leak these out as well until their demands are met.
This is a developing story, so check back here for updates.
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Written by RJ Pierce
