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It's a pretty big increment that Intel has been unable to or unwilling to advance to. The message here is that if Intel drags their feet long enough then it'll
by ihsw2 9y ago
It's a pretty big increment that Intel has been unable to or unwilling to advance to. The message here is that if Intel drags their feet long enough then it'll take that much longer to catch up -- or, more to the point, they'll be forced to take more drastic (read: expensive) measures to catch up.
- wtallis 9y agoIntel has produced multi-die CPUs in the past. They aren't doing it now because their fabrication advantage allows them to make bigger monolithic CPU dies than AMD can afford, so Intel doesn't have to incur the performance penalties that AMD's multi-die CPUs suffer from. At the same time, Intel has been very publicly preparing for the day that it makes sense for them to once again make multi-die CPUs, by making sure they have the technology to do it without the performance hit that is currently necessary. There's no heel-dragging from Intel on this issue. Once Intel's fab advantage is actually eliminated, they'll be forced to make multi-die CPUs to compete against AMD's multi-die CPUs. But every indication is that Intel will be ready to do multi-die better than AMD is doing multi-die. How much better is up for some debate, but it does look like Intel will have a leg up on EPYC's biggest weakness.