Today's CPUs are packaged in flip-chip way - the side with transistors and interconnect layers is turned down, towards the substrate. There's nothing important on the visible side of the die. You...
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Today's CPUs are packaged in flip-chip way - the side with transistors and interconnect layers is turned down, towards the substrate. There's nothing important on the visible side of the die. You...
I thought "the console loss" was due to enormous R&D costs, not per unit manufacturing cost. It's extremely unbelievable that manufacturing anything like PS3 would cost 840$ if you don't count...
Official reference HD 7990 is NOT the same board as FirePro S10000. It's the same two GPUs but a different board.
It just struck me that Nvidia quitting the chipset business freed some color schemes for other uses :)
Wow, this could be the best SFF case ever!
There's only two problems that might make me not buy it:
1) slim OD facing upwards? This is not good whether it's a slot or tray drive.
2) It will...
I don't remember this being confirmed anywhere. AFAIK only BD, PD and SR are confirmed to be evolutions of the same modular architecture.
I hope those whispers get louder soon :)
Silicon interposers and other forms of advanced packaging can convert many these problems to other problems :) On-package memory from AMD has been sighted years ago, it might be close to volume...
Nope, you'll find out very soon :)
I thought "that other website" from a certain slavic country has lost all credibility by now? Please don't ever take it seriously again :D
Good find Flanker and nice analysis informal :up:
Looks to me more like extracting additional inctruction-level parallelism, not thread-level parallelism.
Lower latency means same max...
That would be a Kabini APU on reference board "Larne" :)
These circuitry blocks can be the same for PCI-E, UMI (link to southbridge) and DDI (digital display interfaces - DP and HDMI). They could very well serve other unknown purposes besides the most...
In fact they didn't even say what's the tech process. AMD's presentation from ISSCC suggests that they really wanted Jaguar to be easily portable across foundries and processes. The end product might...
My bet is a ton of intermediate caching levels and prefetching logic (some kind of eDRAM maybe?).
Turbo is good for big, power hungry cores that have a lot of frequency headroom but very little power headroom. I wouldn't expect turbo to be important for Jaguar cores in PS4 (maybe in...
It's still the next big thing for high power cores: Bulldozer, Piledriver, Steamroller. AMD develops two independent x86 microarchitectures and Jaguar is not the one with 2-core modules.
You mean...
I hate sites that make news of things we already know.
I'm sorry but I didn't understand any part of your post :D
They didn't say it has a discrete GPU, quite the contrary. If GPU and CPU have access to a common memory pool (direct quote), this implies one memory controller, one memory bus and at least some HSA...
How so? Previous notable MCMs had bandwidth issues, but not because they were MCMs - they had other architectural constraints. They could also put components on a silicon interposer :rolleyes:
Got a HD 5870 capable of 1300/1350 at least, and a Phenom 560 capable of 6400+ 3D - I'll definitely be doing that!
I think I might still have my decent gulftown (6500 for AM3), but I'd have to...
Last two JJ Abrams movies I watched:
Star Trek :up:
Super 8 :up:
last two G. Lucas movies i watched:
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith :down:
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the...
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It's still VLIW4 as far as we know.
I did something very similar once - a BBP formula multithreaded PI calculator. Mine is without GUI and uses an extremely basic method of time measurement.
Some things to note: BBP formula is...
That graph does not say northbridge is a different package or even a different die. It might just be a name for a ~4 lane PCI-E controller with HSA-compliant IOMMU and IMC, all in the same die as GPU...
That article is so weird it's hardly possible it's fabricated. Factoring in some distortion as the info passed from ear to ear (and some possible lack of understanding on author's part), the news...