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by wmf
1764 days ago
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Sapphire Rapids is more similar to AMD's "Naples" Epyc from 2017 which also used four identical dies. Intel's mesh and EMIB should give Sapphire Rapids dramatically more internal bandwidth than AMD designs. It counts as chiplets IMO because the dies aren't intended to be used standalone. |
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As I said, "chiplet" just depends on a definition, there is really no good single one. Almost certainly the dies could be used standalone, and it wouldn't be surprising if some were for low end SKUs (modulo the statement in the article that they won't for this generation) -- there are some mesh IOs on some length about 1/2 the die on two edges, that's it. Not much area.