Quad - 2 dies on 1 chip or 1 die?

jason4207 · Jun 29, 2007

As far as I know the quad is still 2 dies in 1 package. Does anyone know when they are planning to make it 1 die? Will a new pin layout be required?

Just curious. I too am contemplating the Q6600 vs. the E6750 on 7/22, and think I might stick with the cheaper E6750 and wait for the quads to be 1 die.

Sorin · Jun 29, 2007

Yeah, it's still a two die glued together hackjob at the moment. Wasn"t single die coming with 45nm?

GTengineer · Jun 29, 2007

I dont understand why everyone is always so caught up on the x's and o's and marketing propaganda ... FSB this, native that... In the end all that matters is the bottom line and that is how well does it perform against the competition.

Evilsizer · Jun 29, 2007

no peryn will still be lga775 but some boards wont support it. others just need a bios update. G3x,P35,X38 will just need a bios update. its going to be a single die on the 45nm process.

inkfx · Jun 29, 2007

I also heard that the 45nm processors will be supported by the 680i chipset with a BIOS update.

Big Mike · Jun 29, 2007

Who CARES if its one die, as AMD is deftly proving, at this point in the game all a single die quad core does is substantially handicap yields. With nasty low yields comes nasty low speeds, which gives up what little advantage native quad ever had. Intel is binning the best of the best dual cores and gluing them together.

Evilsizer · Jun 29, 2007

inkfx said:
I also heard that the 45nm processors will be supported by the 680i chipset with a BIOS update.

ShadowPho · Jun 29, 2007

Big Mike said:
Who CARES if its one die, as AMD is deftly proving, at this point in the game all a single die quad core does is substantially handicap yields. With nasty low yields comes nasty low speeds, which gives up what little advantage native quad ever had. Intel is binning the best of the best dual cores and gluing them together.

And this is why we all study object-oriented programming and encapsulation! So the registers won't have to be slowly sent over!

MadMan007 · Jun 30, 2007

I've posted this before but here goes...
Penryn quads won't be single die, that will first come from Intel with Nehalem. Penryn is a tweak of C2D and a rollout of the 45nm process cahnging to single die quads would be another potential stumbling block. Not to mentoin that in terms of production two dual cores makes a lot more sense, it means there is only one die for all 4MB cache C2Ds, whether packaged as quad and dual. This info was confirmed when Intel released info about upcoming processors in March.

http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/12127 just about every hardware review site posted this stuff.

Dapper Dan · Jun 30, 2007

*edit* i am stupid

Lancelot · Jun 30, 2007

Just make sure to FOLD with whatever you get!

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