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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.From what we are hearing, Zen 6 MUST have a new IOD as compared to Zen 5 DT. Assuming that it's true, then it must have full CUDIMM...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion Zen 5 Speculation (EPYC Turin and Strix Point/Granite Ridge - Ryzen 9000).The micro PCs can, and mostly do, all use the same mainboard design. Similar form factors, similar features, similar prices. As was...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion Zen 5 Speculation (EPYC Turin and Strix Point/Granite Ridge - Ryzen 9000).The sad part is that all of this could be moot if AMD would just spin a version of Strix Point on N3P with a 16MB Mall cache for the...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion Zen 5 Speculation (EPYC Turin and Strix Point/Granite Ridge - Ryzen 9000).Most of them using exactly the same mainboard. It's going to take time for others to enter the market, if they ever do.
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion Zen 5 Speculation (EPYC Turin and Strix Point/Granite Ridge - Ryzen 9000).The "under 100w" capacity limit is almost entirely rooted in the FAA/NTSB guidance/regulations that essentially bans mobile devices from...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion Zen 5 Speculation (EPYC Turin and Strix Point/Granite Ridge - Ryzen 9000).MCM modules are a DISTANT afterthought in the market. Daughter board dGPUs might as well not exist for most of the market. They are...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.So do the "poverty parts" go on the recently mentioned N3C node, or are they going to push for a matured N3E or just push for a long...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion Zen 5 Speculation (EPYC Turin and Strix Point/Granite Ridge - Ryzen 9000).They were SO CLOSE to having a killer handheld product with Strix Point though. Killing the MALL cache for a big NPU just puts a stake...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Question Xiaomi successfully “tapes out” China’s first 3nm smartphone chip.Of course they excel at it. Not only do they have more bodies to throw at the problem, but they also made it a strategic military...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.2MB of L3 makes more sense if you move all the L3 off the CCD and into a stacked die. It helps hide the latency hit.
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.It is LITERALLY just a scaled up Strix Point, with one CCX having P cores and the other having dense cores. The only practical...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.I would absolutely want 12+24 over 12+12. All day, any day. I think we only get 12 core CCDs on desktop/mobile, so I think the...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.So fiscally unavailable. If it yields so low and has costs too high, there is no money to be made, so it is effectively unavailable...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion Leading Edge Foundry Node advances (TSMC, Samsung Foundry, Intel) - [2020 - 2025].I'd be impressed if Samsung gets sufficient quality yields on a post "5nm" node of any name to make a commercially viable product. Not...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.As I said a while back, it appeared to me that a lot of the decisions on what we got from Zen5 were based around a part that was...
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