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> making a chip that's two inches by two inches These already exist. Lookup images of AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX - 96 cores: https://www.techpowerup.co
by dist-epoch 3y ago
> making a chip that's two inches by two inches
These already exist. Lookup images of AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX - 96 cores:
https://www.techpowerup.com/img/fp51OPD4JRS7wvTK.jpg https://www.techpowerup.com/img/fp51OPD4JRS7wvTK.jpg
- dontlaugh 3y agoThose are made up of much smaller chiplets. No individual die is all that big
- ls612 3y agoOh the reason they don’t make dies that big is the probably of a defect balloons and your yields would be shit.
- mikepurvis 3y agoApple handles that in part by fusing off the broken subcomponents of the huge die, though, which is how they end up with stuff like a 7-core GPU.
- Detrytus 3y agoEvery chip manufacturer does that, that's how they come up with cheap, low end parts. They just try to keep number of cores an even number, so the trick is less obvious.