I need a sanity check

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In a rant of Charlie Demerjian, he alluded to AMD's Zeppelin:

http://semiaccurate.com/2016/06/13/intels-broadwell-e-not-released/

Or wait for the big AMD Zen but I can’t say why yet, heh, Zepplin.

The thing I found interesting was this was entirely within the context of consumer processors...especially when he said a good alternative to Intel's B.S. could be "big" Zen.

He made a call-back to it in a recent Naples article (I don't have a subscription so I can't read it all), but he's really hammering on this and it seems he has seen details can't discuss them of because of an NDA.

From the rumor-heavy blogs, WCCTech referenced some Fudzilla stuff of Zeppelin:

http://wccftech.com/amd-zeppelin-32-x86-cores-vega-10/

According to these leaks, it is a multi-chip module with a CPU and a flagship-class GPU with HBM2. Am I right in thinking this could be correct and be huge?

 

[K888D]

Could it be the chip that will be in the new XBOX One Scorpio?

 

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Possibly this technology could be used there...separately manufacturing the CPU and GPU on separate dies and being able to mix and match them when combining onto a multi-chip module would improve the yields and binning. But, the stuff from WCCFTech was talking about the high-end Vega GPUs, not the Polaris that will be in Scorpio.

 

[BirdofPrey]

I was under the impression the multi chip modules were for high performance computing clusters.

 

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I was as well...but that article is clearly bent toward consumer processors. Is it that he thinks the MCM will have price parity to the i7-6950X or something along similar lines? Perhaps AMD's justification would be that it has a built-in high performance GPU. That's why I started this thread...it all has me sort of bewildered.

 

[ChainedHope]

It could be their multi-chip substrate. Directly derivative of the substrate for their HBM memory they helped developed. There is information floating around about monster 32/64 core cpus for the server market from Zen which are combined multicore processors. Essentially its like the old 4 slot opteron boards but in a single package (AKA 4 cpus combined that all have 8/16 cores with multithreading).

There is no reason why they couldn't combine a gpu and cpu onto the multi-chip substrate in the same fashion, so a combination cpu+gpu of that caliber could be reality especially with the recent node shrinks.

This is all rumors tho at this point.