Re:Smaller chips, bigger packages, even bigger headaches (2021)
by jotm on Thursday April 07, 2022 @06:33AM
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Huh, can they not just block the malfunctioning chiplets and sell them as cheaper models with fewer cores/cache? Sort of what nVidia and AMD did with their GPUs. AMD has kinda been focusing on the mid and high end range with Ryzen, which makes sense given the demand, so the only actually cheap CPUs these days are Intel.
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Re:Smaller chips, bigger packages, even bigger headaches (2021)
by girvo on Thursday April 07, 2022 @08:35AM
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Given both the demand and AMD/TSMC’s apparently higher than expected yield. You don’t really want to cut down working dies, so if their yield is high then there’s less silicon to turn into those cut down cheaper models
Re:Smaller chips, bigger packages, even bigger headaches (2021)
by p_l on Thursday April 07, 2022 @10:16AM
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From what I heard, AMD essentially makes few variants of CCXes then bins them and based on bins sells them as different models, mixing and matching in order to increase total yield.