How do you Pronounce Ti? apparently there is no official way

[wolf]

From the GeForce at CES 2022 Community Q&A.

I've always been a tee-eye man myself, but old mate that has been showing them off sure has started the most insignificant debate ever. How do you pronounce it?

 

[Fourstaff]

No confusion when I pronounce it "tee eye".

 

[AusWolf]

I think it comes from Titanium. As it's an abbreviation, I pronounce it as tee-eye. There is no such word as "Ti [tie]".

 

[freeagent]

I swing both ways there.. kinda like how I say zee and zed.. I am also caught between imperial and metric

 

[wolf]

I swing both ways there.. kinda like how I say zee and zed.. I am also caught between imperial and metric

I am one way with Ti, but funny you mention "Z", I used two have two Kawasaki Z series bikes, a Z1000 and a Z800, the 1000 was the Zed, and the 800 was the Zee

 

[Outback Bronze]

Voted Tee-Eye : )

 

[ixi]

As AusWolf mentioned, TI comes from word titanium by saying this word you say "Tie". Ahh, le good old days with gtx 980 TItanium .

TI sounds better in my opinion. But what do I know about mArKeTiNg.

 

[outpt]

have a degree in chemistry, for what it's worth and just call it titanium. as for nvidia that's what it's always been called. ask them it's meaning.

 

[Fouquin]

From the GeForce at CES 2022 Community Q&A.

I've always been a tee-eye man myself, but old mate that has been showing them off sure has started the most insignificant debate ever. How do you pronounce it?

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This debate goes deep into the company itself. A lot of the old guard employees say "tie".

 

[plastiscɧ]

A Russian website told me this:

The modern system of chemical signs was proposed at the beginning of the 19th century. The Swedish chemist Jøns Jakob Berzelius. The scientist proposed to designate chemical elements with the initial letter of their Latin name. At that time, all scientific articles were published in Latin, it was generally accepted and understood by all scientists. For example, the chemical element oxygen (in Latin oxygenium) was given the name O. And the chemical element hydrogen (hydrogenium) - H. If the names of several elements began with the same letter, then the second or one of the following letters from the name was given in the symbol of the element. For example, mercury (hydrargyrum) is called Hg. Please note that the first letter of the sign of a chemical element is always an uppercase letter, if there is a second letter, then it is a lowercase letter. It is necessary to remember not only the names of the elements and their symbols, but also the pronunciation, i.e. how these signs are read. There are no fixed rules for pronunciation of signs of chemical elements. They must be learned by heart.

From Hg it can be deduced that the letters are pronounced one by one.

also interesting:

Ti this comes from earlier, at that time it was so that e.g. cards with ending mx = mainstream were and cards with ending ti = high end, so is also a nostalgic thought behind it I think.

it started with the first ti, this was the geforce 2 ti vx (ti vx = mainstream/high end), a bit stronger was the geforce 2 ti (ti = high end), because the vx variant of the ti came up with 225mhz/1800mts and the ti (non vx) with 250mhz/2000mts (2001), the geforce 2 ultra was the spice of the nvidia grakas for gamers at the time around 2001.

the whole thing continued until the geforce 4 (4200 - 4800) ti, the mx was the mainstream (mx 420 - mx 4000).

today it is so, that first the ti`s go out (so the chips = gpu), which then differ from the non ti variants (so a bit the worse, or trimmed chips so to say) in about the shader cluster, stream processors, texture units etc. differ.

 

[Ruru]

My way of Finnish pronounciation is more like like tee-eye as I say it by invidual letters instead of saying "ti".

 

[wolf]

As someone pointed out to me, it does of course stand for Titanium, but like other elements, say Iron being Fe, we don't say "fee" we say "eff-ee", or Li for Lithium, we don't say "Lie" we say "el-eye", does this premise run across the entire periodic table?

 

[plastiscɧ]

As someone pointed out to me, it does of course stand for Titanium, but like other elements, say Iron being Fe, we don't say "fee" we say "eff-ee", or Li for Lithium, we don't say "Lie" we say "el-eye", does this premise run across the entire periodic table?

if you calculate formulas you have to name it individually. but to be honest we rather ask the chemist among us...?! @outpt

my rudimentary wisdom in chemistry has now def. an end

 

[ir_cow]

As someone pointed out to me, it does of course stand for Titanium, but like other elements, say Iron being Fe, we don't say "fee" we say "eff-ee", or Li for Lithium, we don't say "Lie" we say "el-eye", does this premise run across the entire periodic table?

It was Titanium at one point back in the Geforce 3 days. I think it actually means nothing these days Just like cars. GRX, GTR, GXEEE449877. Whatever the marketing department thinks sounds good and rolls off the tongue. I still say T - I. Because of the Titanium origins.

 

[Sithaer]

T-I normally but sometimes I'm caught saying just Ti as in 1 word since my language allows it and so far no one gave me the weird look or questioned me.

 

[witkazy]

Die Hard Nvidia fans pronounce it like
Yippee Tee eye me thinks

 

[steen]

This debate goes deep into the company itself. A lot of the old guard employees say "tie"

There's no debate. Ask DP or BB. They've just doubled down on the meme since the last CES. Always chemical symbol Ti & pronounced tee-eye since the Geforce 2 era. However the chef in his kitchen pronounces it is definitive.

 

[ratirt]

How about we change the convention and we just pronounce it ti like "tee" with no 'eye' since the GPUs market becomes blind to the prices

 

[plastiscɧ]

Ask DP or BB

sorry for the question; these ??persons?? are who..?

 

[W1zzard]

Just dig up a video of Jenhsun announcing a Ti product?

 

[plastiscɧ]

thank you very much! i can do something with a name written out.

mea culpa

 

[ir_cow]

Just dig up a video of Jenhsun announcing a Ti product?

well.... Time stamp 19:09. TIE is the answer. I say its wrong, but I didn't create the product lol.

However Jenhsun says T-I - Timestamp 1:37:43 . You can lock the thread and close the poll now

 

[Athlonite]

It's pronounced T (ee) i (eye) as for nVidia who gives a fuck about how they want to say it.... Jen Hsun probably says Ronere instead Lonely

 

[silentbogo]

Oh man, that was like a sound of screeching fork on a plate throughout Nvidia presentation. It's been "Titanium" or "T-I" for over 20 years now.

 

[GreiverBlade]

well he answered it ... "spelling" that would mean each letter in phonetics thus Tee-Eye (or Tee-Aye depending the correct sound of the "i" in your region ) ti is phonetical for "T" technically (at least in English because in French it's "Te") thus not a "correct" spelling

in the end it's just a matter of logic ... imho
(no matter what leather jacket says.)