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The die shot looks to have 15 core modules at 2 cores each. I assume the 28-core variant lasers out 2 for yields and clockspeeds. I guess this one would then be
by hajile 8y ago
The die shot looks to have 15 core modules at 2 cores each. I assume the 28-core variant lasers out 2 for yields and clockspeeds. I guess this one would then be cutting out 6 cores per chip. Big chips really aren't the way forward.
- tolien 8y agoPer the caption it’s an Ivy Bridge, i.e. not the Xeon the article talks about. There’s an annotated die photo of the CLAP (seriously, did nobody in Intel marketing predict “Intel gives you the CLAP”, “Intel CPUs have the CLAP” and khibosh this name?!) predecessor die at [1]. 1: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/skylake_(server)#Extreme_Core_Count_.28XCC.29 https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/skylak...
- nolok 8y agoDoes Intel's PR seem to be on point to you these days?
- tolien 8y agoNo doubt they’re scrambling but managing to name a product after an STI is more “Gerald Ratner” [1] than “on point”. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ratner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ratner
- wmf 8y agoIntel uses three-letter codenames, so it's probably something like CLX-AP, not CLAP.
- tolien 8y agoFrom TFA: > Intel is labeling them "Cascade Lake Advanced Performance," The Anandtech article suggests they’re de-emphasising the “Lake” so it’s more of a C-AP.