| ▲ | toast0 16 hours ago | |
> AMD's X3D CPUs have a single SRAM die stacked on top of the regular CPU+SRAM, with TSVs in the L3 cache to connect to the extra SRAM. Just FYI, the latest X3D flipped the stack; the cache die is now on the bottom. This helps transfer heat from the compute die to the heatsink more effectively. In armchair silicon designer mode, one could imagine this setup also adds potential for multiple cache dies stacked, since they do interpose all the signals, why not add a second one ... but I'm sure it's not that simple, for one: AMD wants the package z-heights to be consistent between the x3d and normal chip. | ||