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Or to "slot CPUs" of the P3 era, where the CPU and cache management were shipped on the same PCB. Or to still earlier designs where multiple VLIW chips were de
by ajross 4y ago
Or to "slot CPUs" of the P3 era, where the CPU and cache management were shipped on the same PCB. Or to still earlier designs where multiple VLIW chips were designed in tandem to act as a single component. The original IBM RS/6000's had (IIRC) a six-chip "CPU". There are comparatively few new ideas in semiconductor packaging.
- rbanffy 4y agoNow you made me remember Unisys’ Micro-A. It was an A-series mainframe on an ISA board. The CPU had 8 chips in a single MCM (multi-chip module, as they called it) IIRC.