Bulldozer Die Shot!

[JumpingJack]

Some intresting about die size. Look at the structures, highlighted in the blue rectangle - this is the same IMC at little normalized size. Orochi look's like Agena - this is big chip compared to Deneb. One Bulldozer module (without L2 cache) is about 80-100% larger than the Deneb core (without L2) and probably has 2MB L2 cache. The expected die size of 45nm orochi is about 450 mm2, but at 32nm it will be about 250 mm2. Too many... I expected that it will be no more than 200 mm2.


Regards. Sorry for my english.

Your english is fine ... better than mine actually.

Hans is the real expert on deconvoluting die shots and sizes. As has been beat to death, the die shot has been altered for good reasons.

However, Hans did make a guess based on the io pads, which appear to have escaped the photoshop treatment:
http://aceshardware.freeforums.org/p...40.html#p14040

performing the same activity I estimated about 300 mm^2 for a 4 module BD -- so he seems about right, again assuming that the right structures were selected for the scaling. This may seem large to some, but for the markets that this chip would target the margins will be very good.