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Re:AMD 3D V-Cache teardown shows majority of the Ryzen 7 980... by ItsTotallyOn on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @12:35PM (#42452711)
Your statement is incorrect. The analysis was made by a professional firm - dummy silicon shims are used because the dies are thinned, as per AMD's own disclosures. Those silicon shims are bonded to the compute and SRAM dies.
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