Why is this interesting well you have three chips combined into one platform. So it’s not a SOC or a Motherboard, it’s a new way to link chips together!
Note that AMD’s Threadripper seems to be two CPU’s interlinked.
Generally if you wanted to link chips you could combine them into a new chip or put them onto a motherboard and wire them up.
This new approach could open the way for multi-cpu-gpu-ram hardware that fit’s into a CPU socket.
It’s more modular, compact and should provide faster communication between components.
If you can get the RAM, CPU and GPU onto a socket then could we see multi-cpu/gpu/ram gaming platforms that are a fraction of the size of todays consoles and PC’s?
The knock on effects are reduced cost and improved speed (assuming distance = time).
Also any multi-chip hardware e.g. Xbox, PS, raspberry PI and VR HMD’s could using this technology be consolidated into one socket!
Now if they could just do this in 3D so chips could be stacked near each other and linked we could see some massive performance/price improvements!
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Another useless product from intel really, I guess atleast the GPU side will be better unlike all the trash built in gpus they’ve been supplying and forcing on consumers for the past few years.
I am excited to see inexpensive computers with APU (combined CPU and GPU) and HBM style memory. It is really neat, and it opens the door to building ultra small form factor computers. It is smart for Intel to work with AMD on this specific tech, because AMD is currently way out in front on this.
Awesome use cases for next gen APUs will include smaller, faster entry level desktop PCs, laptops, consoles, etc. Personally, I suspect the AMD APU will still be preferred for those use cases over this latest solution from Intel. But it is still exciting to see Intel try to make some inroads into this section of the market.
No. The interesting part of the article is not that they combined CPU, GPU, and RAM chips into a single platform. There’s literally nothing special about that as it’s done all the time. What’s interesting is that Intel is using AMD Radeon rather than relying on their own pathetic attempts at a GPU. Intel is essentially admitting defeat.
Isn’t the neat thing about Intel’s GPUs how little power they use? For general computing tasks they’re perfectly adequate, and I’ve done plenty of game dev over the past couple of years using them, too.
That was the advantage they held but AMD’s new Ryzen-based mobile chips are now equivalent to Intel’s mobile chips for power consumption while having superior graphical power.
It looks like it could make the chips we put on a socket more flexible, e.g. if you need a chip with more cache or a side order of gpu, fpu, vpu or nnpu then it could become a viable option if there is enough demand.
The fun really begins if this technology is flexible enough to combine chips after they are made, on demand, imagine ordering a cpu and deciding what goes into it’s build.
Outside of very niche situations where this might be useful this would only be a headache for developers.
What’s more likely to happen is that they will manufacture the packages with every feature for their tier and simply disable the ones you didn’t pay for. I’m just surprised they haven’t tried locking features behind an after purchase paywall yet in the same manner that game developers sell DLC.
