Republic of Upper Volta Republic of Upper Volta The Republic of Upper Volta (), now Burkina Faso, was a landlocked West African country established on December 11, 1958, as a self-governing colony within the French Community. Before attaining autonomy it had been French Upper Volta and part of the French Union. On August 5, 1960, it attained full independence from France. Thomas Sankara came to power through a military coup d'état on August 4, 1983. After the coup, he formed the National Council for the Revolution (CNR), with himself as president. Under the direction of Sankara, the country changed its name on August 4,
Volta (microarchitecture) based on Volta. Volta was succeeded by the Turing architecture. Architectural improvements of the Volta architecture include the following: Volta has been announced as the GPU microarchitecture within the Xavier generation of Tegra SoC focusing on self-driving cars. At Nvidia's annual GPU Technology Conference keynote on 10th May 2017, Nvidia officially announced the Volta mircoarchitecture along with the Tesla V100. The Volta GV100 GPU is built on a 12 nm process size using HBM2 memory with 900 GB/s of bandwidth. Nvidia officially announced the NVIDIA TITAN V on December 7, 2017. Nvidia officially announced the Quadro GV100 on March 27,