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all other things being equal the more transistors you have on a processor the

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more features and performance you get and ever since the 1970s manufacturers

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have been finding ways to shove more and more transistors onto a single chip by

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making the transistors smaller in fact the widely quoted moore's law that

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anticipated that the number of transistors on a CPU would double

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roughly every two years held true for decades

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but in recent years moore's law has started to look more like moore's pipe

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dream as it's becoming harder and harder

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to keep shrinking transistors down due to the chemical properties of silicon

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so how do we solve this problem and keep making our computers and our gadgets

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faster and faster well although the industry has been

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looking at making smaller transistors on materials other than silicon as we

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briefly discussed in this video another idea that seems to be catching on is

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using something called chiplets now traditionally the dye or the part of

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a CPU that contains the transistors is

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manufactured as a single monolithic piece so there are practical limits to

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how big you can make them before the likelihood of a fatal defect landing on

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your die becomes too high by contrast

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chiplets are modular mini dies that can

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be combined into one CPU package to

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improve performance but i mean hold on a minute here you guys

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might say well what's the point of all this if the transistors are the same

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size anyway aren't you just adding an assembly step and making it take up more

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room well as it turns out oftentimes

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chiplet-based cpus are indeed larger think of AMD's new

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epic series of server processors as an example

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however they're also hugely advantageous

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when you consider yields so if you're not familiar with the

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concept of yields here's what it means cpus are manufactured on large silicon

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wafers and that manufacturing process

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isn't perfect which means that on a given wafer there will be some number of

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defects so if we take our wafer and divide it into smaller chiplets it means

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less wasted silicon for each defect and

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it also makes it easier to take the chiplets that are functional but that

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don't perform as well and combine those into lower end products salvaging back

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some of the cost on a large scale this leads to faster

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manufacturing and lower costs with significant real world benefits in fact

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AMD's epic cpus only cost about half as

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much thanks to chiplets versus using one

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large die now although chiplets are more common in

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the high-end desktop and server markets right now the technology will most

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likely trickle down to the consumer space such as with AMD's rumored

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upcoming 16 core ryzen CPU

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that's going to put pressure on Intel to reduce their prices which might force

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them to pursue chiplet-based designs as well

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another fun benefit is that chiplets also allow manufacturers to separate out

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parts of the CPU that don't handle pure number crunching such as input and

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output blocks as it's often harder to shrink those parts of a processor down

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so then you can just tack those bits on separately and attach

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as many chiplets as you want connecting them together with a high speed

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interface like AMD's infinity fabric now

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of course the obvious drawback of size

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still does exist but until we run up against the limits

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imposed by signals moving at the speed of light within a microprocessor

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chiplets do seem to be one of the best paths forward

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