Computing · 2019

Chiplets

Big chips assembled from smaller ones.

AMD's Zen 2 processors combined 7 nm compute chiplets with a 12 nm I/O die. Chiplets improved yields and are now standard in high-end CPUs and GPUs.

Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

What it built on 2

The dashed line marks when it first worked.

Transistors per microprocessor Latest: 58.2B transistors (2021) Source: Our World in Data

ML hardware FLOP/s per dollar Source: Epoch AI, ML hardware (CC BY 4.0)