[msandford]

Huge die doesn't really matter if you have the ability to suffer defects on it and still turn out a quality product.

If they put 100 cores on every die but only activate 80 of them then that means they can tolerate absolutely HORRIBLE per-processor yields and still make chips that work. Their yields could actually be BETTER than with chiplets because they can afford so many problems.

Not saying that this is true, BTW, just that it's theoretically and practically possible.

[shdh]

The larger the die the greater the likelihood of defects. Also the larger the number of defects per mm/sq.