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Wouldn't dark silicon help with both yield and heat though?
by ethbro 8y ago
Wouldn't dark silicon help with both yield and heat though?
- ben_w 8y agoYield makes sense. Surely heat issues are better done on purpose not incidentally?
- russdill 8y agoIt's very difficult to save power with unused silicon on newer process nodes due to high leakage. You actually have to turn it off. Putting each IP into it's own power domain just isn't feasible. Not good for power sensitive applications.
- foobarian 8y agoIs there actually an advantage of the new process for those applications? Will any leading-edge company actually choose to use an older process because it performs better for them?
- kingosticks 8y agoWe were being asked to look at a design where we literally didn't have anything in the middle of the chip in order to reduce local power (specifically due to current limitations of the bumps)!