NVIDIA Next Gen-GPU Hopper could be offered in chiplet design
Next years Nvidia Ampere GPUs have not yet even been announced and now the supposedly next-generation chip generation Hopper info already spreads on the web, Hopper could be based on a multi-die design, you know chiplets.
Hopper (Grace Hopper) is the name of yet another mathematician being applied to architecture. She has been involved in groundbreaking projects, such as the Mark I super-computer (at the time) at Harvard University, and revolutionized computer science with the first high-level programming language COBOL. Now her name is supposed to adorn Nvidia's next-generation GPU: The Hopper architecture is to follow Ampere (presumably RTX 3000) and be manufactured in chiplet (MCM) design.
MCM design scale less for GPUs, think a little about SLI for example and the problems that come with it. However, it also offers significant advantages in production. The larger a chip is, the higher the risk of production error that can render the chip completely unusable (yields). MCM can create far larger packages than the limitations of one chip alone, so they are very scalable. It might be a trend for graphics chips. However, these are for the time being unconfirmed rumors, all of them.
Photo NVIDIA: 36-chip MCM prototype
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royalties from using chiplet design could give AMD some laughter all the way to the bank...
just saying
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amd didn't patent chiplets.
They patented how THEY did chiplets, but theirs is not the only possible way
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royalties from using chiplet design could give AMD some laughter all the way to the bank...
just saying
i do not think that's something that can be put in a patent you have multiple chips for a specific job ... would be like ...say Ford patenting the simultaneous use of more than 1 wheel ! so if you want to make something more than a unicycle ..... pay royalties !
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Was a crossbreed between sarcasm, joke and wishful thinking
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So I guess AMD are onto something