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How do all these lanes get into the CPU? There are only so many pins on a chip. Are they time-shared? If so why do you need n physical slots and not just a swit
by chrisseaton 4y ago
How do all these lanes get into the CPU? There are only so many pins on a chip. Are they time-shared? If so why do you need n physical slots and not just a switched network that lets you daisy chain as many as you can switch? (I’m an architecture lay-person.)
- davrosthedalek 4y agoThreadripper comes in a seriously big package. 4094 pins, compared to 1718 for AM5 (the new ryzen socket).
- wtallis 4y agoPCIe already is a packet-switched network, but the big and fast switches are very expensive.