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If it had been a considered move, planned well in advance they would have designed some Xeon dies to use EMIB interconnects rather than making due with the desi
by Symmetry 8y ago
If it had been a considered move, planned well in advance they would have designed some Xeon dies to use EMIB interconnects rather than making due with the designs they had on hand.
[1]https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/foundry/emib.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/foundry/emib.html
- rbanffy 8y agoUnless they consider this a transitional generation to future MCP processor modules. Launch early, assess market fit and plan accordingly. Intel did differently with Phi and it didn't quite work the way they (and I) expected.
- saltcured 8y agoAlso, this MCM approach is a common Intel strategy. They did it for early dual core CPUs (Pentium D) and again with early quad core CPUs (e.g. Q6600 was basically two E6600 chips).