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Re:AMD Tackles Coming “Chiplet” Revolution With New Chip Net... by tzahola on Sunday June 24, 2018 @08:12AM (#17386236)
>As long as there’s a decent SDK that abstracts the hard stuff away

I'd be very skeptical of that. See: Cell Broadband Engine.

Re:AMD Tackles Coming “Chiplet” Revolution With New Chip Net... by rbanffy on Sunday June 24, 2018 @09:57AM (#17386571)
I don't think that's even needed. I just assume what you'll see from inside the program is some resources connected to some sort of very fast interconnect. It's nowhere near what Cell was - a really bad barrel-like PPC core that had to manage DMA to feed a bunch of marginally-smarter-than-DSP cores (with an incompatible ISA, obviously) that had no access to the main memory.
Re:AMD Tackles Coming “Chiplet” Revolution With New Chip Net... by garmaine on Sunday June 24, 2018 @10:43AM (#17386737)
Pointing to one example of someone failing to do something in the past is not strong evidence it won’t happen this time. If anything there was lessons learned from that failure.
Re:AMD Tackles Coming “Chiplet” Revolution With New Chip Net... by gigatexal on Sunday June 24, 2018 @02:15PM (#17387628)
That’s very true, too.
Re:AMD Tackles Coming “Chiplet” Revolution With New Chip Net... by gigatexal on Sunday June 24, 2018 @08:33AM (#17386297)
Oh yeah it took what 8 years to get decent ps3 games?