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As I understand it, this is because the 3d stacking is fairly expensive (it adds a lot of silicon and extra manufacturing cost), so 3d cache only makes sense on
by adgjlsfhk1 3y ago
As I understand it, this is because the 3d stacking is fairly expensive (it adds a lot of silicon and extra manufacturing cost), so 3d cache only makes sense once your chip is too big to put all the cache in 2D.
- convolvatron 3y agoI suspect there is a yield issue also. that is one large chip with one defect in the wrong place is just glass. with chipsets you would assemble the module after chipset unit test. but maybe redundancy and binning has made this moot.