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Pemalite said:

JEMC said:

 

In any case, this design can work wonders for AMD, reusing the same chiplets for all its Zen2 products and only modifying the central I/O chip to suit the need of the rest of the products. Because desktop Ryzen won't need an 8-channel memory controller and other security extras.

I/O doesn't scale downwards in nodes very well either... Because allot of die area is for things like routing... So it makes sense to have that on an older, cheaper process and bringing the cores to the latest and greatest process.

And I've read that taking the I/O (and other) parts away from the CPU cores could mean that those cores will be able to run at higher frequencies, because they won't have stability problems with those parts.