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drkohler said:
KBG29 said:

A chiplet based SOC with seperate CPU, GPU, and I/O Chiplets would be very interesting.

Not going to happen. Waaaaay too expensive for a console. Chiplets are a cool thing for stuff like transaction servers that might have hundreds/thousands of processors that do very basic things, like answering questions.

Please explain, because that goes against everything I have read about the reason AMD, Intel, and Nvidia are all moving towards Chiplets for all consumer and enterprise CPUs and GPUs, and away from Monolithic chips.

Cost and Yeilds were the main factors AMD spoke about when they revealed the where seperating the I/O from the main CPU die, why they have been investing heavily into Infinity Fabric, and why they are not throwing 16 or 32 cores on one massive die.

Apple has also been doing the same thing, adding more and more fixed function chips to aid the CPU and GPU, instead of throwing more silicone into a single monolithic chips.



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