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AMD needs to die shrink their R9 chip to 20nm or less and put four of them on a single pci-e board. They'd make a fortune.
by ck2 13y ago
AMD needs to die shrink their R9 chip to 20nm or less and put four of them on a single pci-e board.
They'd make a fortune.
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- zanny 13y agoWell, first, they need to spend the several hundred million to build a 20nm fab plant since nobody else has one. Then they need to change quantum mechanics so they could cool 4 300w 300mm die packages on one pcb without liquid nitrogen or liquid epeen. Sounds pretty expensive.
- nhaehnle 13y agoEven 14nm fabs exist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14_nanometer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14_nanometer Vendors are pretty tight-lipped about yield, though, and your other points stand as well, obviously.
- ck2 13y agoMaybe encased in non-conductive oil with a waterblock-like circulation?
- leeoniya 13y agoi think there's a good chance that board would melt. the current R9 is 275W TDP? even with a process shrink, this wont be enough to cut it down sufficiently.