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I think their general idea is to make 10nm CPUs on very small dies, so that they can get a reasonable acceptance rate. Then push as many ancillary functions as
by throw20102010 7y ago
I think their general idea is to make 10nm CPUs on very small dies, so that they can get a reasonable acceptance rate. Then push as many ancillary functions as possible onto 14nm silicon.
Bam! A tiny 10nm part surrounded by a bunch of 14nm pieces has a high enough yield that they can get production cranking and start selling "10nm" CPUs.
- wtallis 7y agoI don't think Intel's chiplet strategy is getting off the ground soon enough to help them deliver 10nm client CPUs this year. AMD's way closer to shipping something like that, because they're using fairly traditional packaging techniques instead of something like Intel's EMIB. For this year, Intel needs to ship a regular single-die client CPU with integrated graphics, which means they need a 10nm process that solves whatever prevented Cannon Lake's integrated GPU from functioning. (This probably means at a minimum redesigning that GPU to use lower density transistor libraries.)