Flag of Burkina Faso of black, white, and red. These colours represented the three major tributaries of the Volta River, which flows south through the country: the Black Volta, the White Volta and the Red Volta. It is similar to the tricolor flag used by the German Empire from 1871 to 1918. The flag was changed when Upper Volta became Burkina Faso on 4 August 1984. From 1984 until 1997, the official Burkina Faso coat of arms used a revolutionary central crest featuring a mattock crossed with a Soviet AK-47 assault rifle, along with an open book symbolising the importance of education and the
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,