Re:Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors
by dragontamer on Monday October 18, 2021 @06:01PM
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As far as I'm aware, IBM is one of the few chip-designers who have eDRAM capabilities.
IBM has eDRAM on a number of chips in varying capacities, but... its difficult for me to think of Intel, AMD, Apple, ARM, or other chips that have eDRAM of any kind.
Intel had one: the eDRAM "Crystalwell" chip, but that is seemingly a one-off and never attempted again. Even then, this was a 2nd die that was "glued" onto the main chip, and not like IBM's truly eDRAM (embedded into the same process).
Re:Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors
by morei on Monday October 18, 2021 @07:01PM
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You're right. My bad. It's much less common than I'd thought.
(Intel had it on a number of chips that included the Iron Pro Graphics across Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake etc)
Re:Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors
by dragontamer on Monday October 18, 2021 @07:04PM
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But only the Iris Pro 5200 (codename: Crystalwell) had eDRAM. All other Iris Pro were just normal DDR4.
EDIT: Oh, apparently there were smaller 64MB eDRAM on later chips, as you mentioned. Well, today I learned something.
Re:Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors
by epmaybe on Monday October 18, 2021 @08:43PM
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Ha, I still use an intel 5775c in my home server!
Re:Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors
by beebeepka on Monday October 18, 2021 @07:25PM
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I think the chip you are talking about is Broadwell.
Re:Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors
by dragontamer on Monday October 18, 2021 @07:27PM
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Broadwell was the CPU-core.
Crystalwell was the codename for the eDRAM that was grafted onto Broadwell. (EDIT: Apparently Haswell, but... yeah. Crystalwell + Haswell for eDRAM goodness)
(SRAM is prohibitively expensive to do at scale due to die area required).
Edit: Nope, I'm wrong. It's pretty much only Power that has this.