AMD is looking into chiplets to connect future CPUs and GPUs
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wavetrex
And so the cycle repeats...
1) First computers were made out of individual components (vacuum tubes and relays, then transistors)
2) Many of these transistors eventually got integrated into "integrated circuits", which live to this day (a CPU or GPU is still an I.C.)
3) Eventually we learned to put so much stuff on one single I.C. that it became the computer itself (System-on-a-Chip, or SoC)
4) But we're reaching the limit of how much stuff can we put on one single chip, so... it's getting split into these "chiplets"
Future:
5) Eventually with new technology (beyond silicon) it will be possible to put so many "chiplets" on one interposer, as it will become an "integrated chiplet array" or some weird name like that, no different than one I.C. of today.
6) Even more into the future *, we'll be able to stack chiplets and cooling inside the same "array", resulting in gigantic computing power in the shape of a cube of sorts, cooled by water flowing through the chip itself.
* This has already been experimented by IBM, but never produced on a large scale (too expensive).
Evildead666
Exciting times ahead, for sure 😉
rav555
This is actually rather old news. Last year AMD published a White Paper along with GH Loh and others titled: "Design and Analysis of an APU for Exascale Computing". It goes on in detail to describe the Multi Chip Module for the Exascale Node Architecture.
A pdf can be found here: http://www.computermachines.org/joe/publications/pdfs/hpca2017_exascale_apu.pdf
Silva
Pimpiklem
Future looks bright.
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blazngun
AMD seems to be playing the long game, while Intel wallows is the mess they have created by being complacent due to no competition.
icedman
I had a feeling this would happen as soon as AMD started using an interposer on fury
Fox2232
I was talking about this years ago. And then again and again. Finally road is open.
Computer sized as 2.5'' HDD, just bit thicker due to cooling. Strong computers sized as graphics cards today. There is just need to make new form factor standards.
fantaskarsef
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RooiKreef
This sounds very interesting and the good thing is the small overall size with all the performance. However I’m very curious to see how on earth they will cool this big slice of silicone... Vega is already showing how hard it is to cool GPU with HBM... Imagine a CPU on the same slice of silicone... hmmmm....
fantaskarsef
RooiKreef
Fox2232
fantaskarsef
Fox2232
tunejunky
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