Re:M1 Ultra About 3x Bigger Than AMD's Ryzen CPUs
by wmf on Sunday March 20, 2022 @06:04PM
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Usually dies aren't mirrored on the wafer so I'm calling citation needed on this one.
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Re:M1 Ultra About 3x Bigger Than AMD's Ryzen CPUs
by ace2358 on Monday March 21, 2022 @12:21AM
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Not sure if the counts. I know it’s a patent and it could be anything. But it talks about two adjacent dies being used if they’re good or being split if there is a defect.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20210217702A1/en?oq=2021...
Re:M1 Ultra About 3x Bigger Than AMD's Ryzen CPUs
by wmf on Monday March 21, 2022 @01:14AM
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Thanks for the link. I'm not a lithography expert, but this looks like a Cerebras-style approach at a smaller scale. It might be cheaper than the EMIB/InFo approach since there's no interposer with the associated alignment and thickness issues. In the keynote Apple explicitly said they're using a silicon interposer, which doesn't sound like this patent.