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Pemalite on 08 November 2018
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JEMC said:
Pemalite said:

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.

Potentially, yes.

It's a balancing act... Because by removing all that fluff and decoupling the I/O and other parts... The CPU cores can be made extremely tiny... Which means the surface area that meets the CPU heatsink could potentially not be ideal, which can impact cooling.
Obviously not going to be an issue in this instance though... As the CPU cores are still a decent size.

It's interesting how we have come full circle by going on a path of de-integration after AMD integrated the North Bridge to the CPU with the Athlon 64.



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