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Didn’t Intel have a similar idea with Skylake? Those had very fast albeit smaller eDRAM die glued to the processor. It was dropped on subsequent generations.
by ACAVJW4H 6y ago
Didn’t Intel have a similar idea with Skylake? Those had very fast albeit smaller eDRAM die glued to the processor. It was dropped on subsequent generations.
- Dylan16807 6y agoIt worked pretty well but Intel clearly never liked the idea. They only offered it on a couple low-end models even before dropping it.
- buildbot 6y agoIt’s actually still surprisingly relevant in terms of performance [1], and I see it as a precursor to the gigantic caches we are seeing in the latest chips. [1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16195/a-broadwell-retrospective-review-in-2020-is-edram-still-worth-it https://www.anandtech.com/show/16195/a-broadwell-retrospecti...
- rsynnott 6y agoMy impression was that this may have been designed at Apple’ behest; certainly they were the major user. Older than Skylake, btw; Haswell had it.