In the LKML and other development forums or lists that concern the world of Linux kernel and the controllers, sometimes very interesting things are discussed or talked about. In fact, sometimes things have been leaked about future architectures or technologies thanks to these sources where they discuss or talk about the development process of these for the integration of controllers or the necessary code in these free projects. On this occasion, it was a member of AMD development who spoke about what could be the future of the company's graphics ...
AMD has distanced itself from NVIDIA in recent months, now NVIDIA, especially with the arrival of the GeForceRTX, which have technologies such as the new NVLink link that replaces SLI, Deep Learning, DLSS, Ray Tracing, etc. AMD had high hopes for Navi, the future architecture for its Radeons. But by then NVIDIA will also have advanced with its architecture and it is likely that the Navi GPUs will face the future NVIDIA, although they should be somewhat behind. However, we will have to wait and see how the successor to AMD Polaris behaves.
Well, one of AMD developers which acts as a link or representation of the company within the forum where it was discussed, it seems that something has escaped about a possible future technology or architecture that many have taken as the successor to Navi, although we still have to be careful and see if you did it intentionally, unintentionally or if it is just speculation. Many have interpreted it to mean that the name given would be the future successor architecture to Navi.
Is it really an architecture? Well, it seems that no, because what was being talked about was about a change in the naming of the architectures, instead of using Polaris 10, Polaris 20, Vega 10, Vega 20, etc., to which the AMD representative said that possibly that would come with AMD Arcturus. And it is that apparently AMD would use key names to avoid leaks in this type of forums and mailing lists in which they talk about future drivers. So it's likely that AMD Arcturus is some designation for the first of the chips under the Navi architecture that would revert to the different naming designation that was being debated ...