- Manufacturers have taken the course to standardize multi-chip packages - Intel stops supplying Xeon Phi 7200 Knights Landing coprocessors - Intel Core i7-8700K seen in the companys motherboard ASRock Z370 Pro4 - Radeon RX Vega red kits are not available on the official website -

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POSTER: computer news   ||    MANUFACTURERS HAVE TAKEN THE COURSE TO STANDARDIZE MULTI-CHIP PACKAGES	DATE:2017-08-26
A number of reports at the conference Hot Chips 2017 showed the extreme interest of semiconductor manufacturers and developers in multi-chip packages.  More precisely, we are not talking about traditional multi-chip packaging of identical crystals, as, for example, in the case of AMD EPYC processors, but about packaging of heterogeneous crystals connected by a high-speed interface.  The latter allow to significantly increase the density and complexity of solutions, which can not be achieved if the discrete components are combined on the board. The developers' hopes are related to the expected standardization of the so-called chiplets.  Thin crystals for modular assemblies on a common substrate should receive the status of IP solutions - licensed for the development of unified blocks, the assembly, production and assembly of which will be maximally automated.  This is currently being handled by a group of companies within the framework of the Common Heterogeneous Integration and IP Reuse Strategies (CHIPS) project of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.  The resulting standard should be open and it will be opposed to today's proprietary technologies TSMC CoWoS, Intel EMIB and others.  The result should be announced no later than eight months.  We will see. While there is no general standard, Intel and TSMC are actively promoting their approaches.  TSMC uses CoWoS 2.5D (Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate) for assembling AMD and NVIDIA GPUs with HBM memory and for packaging Apple's SoC with memory chips.  With the same packaging, Xilinx FPGAs with integrated memory are available.  For a mass user, this is still an expensive experience and, in addition, Intel and AMD processors are not yet available in this form.  Also, from the packaging of CoWoS, Microsoft refused when designing a new processor for the Xbox One X. Expensive. The Intel EMIB technology, proposed in 2014 (Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge), promised to become cheaper multi-chip packaging.  It does not use end-to-end TSVs, as in the case of the TSMC proposal, and relies on a simple bridge from the substrate.  With the help of EMIB, Intel produces FPGA Stratix (Altera) with integrated transceivers and memory.  For this purpose, Intel offered two interfaces: for memory HBM digital UIB, for RF and other blocks - analog AIB.  EMIB packaging is available in three Intel plants for six different process processes.  Within the assembly, up to 20,000 links with a bandwidth of up to 2 Gb / s are offered.  According to the leading architect of Intel's FPGA group, Sergey Shkaraev (a graduate of KhAI), the EMIB package allows creating a complex chip six times larger than the 2.5D package. At the same time, both Intel and TSMC note a number of limitations inherent in multi-chip packages.  So, the CoWoS process does not allow heating chips when mounted on a substrate over 95 degrees Celsius.  This limitation is caused by the use of a stack in the form of HBM memory, each lower layer of which is hotter by 2 degrees.  At the same time, Intel, for example, makes extremely stringent requirements for suppliers of crystals for EMIB packaging.  One faulty crystal will negate all the savings that are expected from multi-chip packages. Select Rating : Currently 10.00/10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 49546 Rating: 10.0/10 (134 votes cast) Manufacturers have taken the course to standardize multi-chip packages	Add Comment ( 1 ) MANUFACTURERS HAVE TAKEN THE COURSE TO STANDARDIZE MULTI-CHIP PACKAGES

POSTER: computer news   ||    INTEL STOPS SUPPLYING XEON PHI 7200 KNIGHTS LANDING COPROCESSORS	DATE:2017-08-26
Intel company regularly removes obsolete or not in demand products from its assortment, and now this fate befalls coprocessors Xeon Phi 7200, code-named Knights Landing. It should be noted right away that Knights Landing coprocessors, which are manufactured in the form of expansion cards with PCI Express interface, went under the knife, while the host processors of the same name, LGA 3647, will retain their place in the Intel range.  Note that the first is not released since April this year, and now Intel finally stops their delivery. This decision is due to the fact that the Xeon Phi 7220A, 7220P and 7240P coprocessors have not gained much popularity, and were produced in a limited edition, which does not even fall into the category of mass production, and only close partners of Intel used and use them.  In turn, Xeon Phi 7200 host processors in LGA performance have gained a high popularity due to higher performance (3-3.4 TFlops FP64 vs. less than 3 TFlops in the PCIe version), and they are still manufactured and delivered. Select Rating : Currently 10.00/10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 49545 Rating: 10.0/10 (132 votes cast) Intel stops supplying Xeon Phi 7200 Knights Landing coprocessors	Add Comment ( 1 ) INTEL STOPS SUPPLYING XEON PHI 7200 KNIGHTS LANDING COPROCESSORS

POSTER: computer news   ||   INTEL CORE I7-8700K SEEN IN THE COMPANYS MOTHERBOARD ASROCK Z370 PRO4	DATE:2017-08-26
Recently, Intel introduced the first Core processors eighth generation, although it was only mobile U-series processors, and that before the expected Coffee Coffee processors, they will be released only in the fall, in early October.   Our colleagues from VideoCardz managed to find in the SiSoft performance test record a test of the Intel Core i7-8700K processor installed in the consumer motherboard built on the chipset of the Intel Z370   chips, namely ASRock Z370 Pro4.  The test once again confirmed the processor has six cores and twelve streams with frequencies of 3.7-4.3 GHz. As a result of  multimedia test, the performance of the processor is rated as excellent.  In the local ranking, the processor Core i7-8700K took 633 place, and according to SiSoft, its performance is higher than 99.59% of the processors of this rating. Select Rating : Currently 10.00/10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 49544 Rating: 10.0/10 (132 votes cast) Intel Core i7-8700K seen in the companys motherboard ASRock Z370 Pro4	Add Comment ( 1 ) INTEL CORE I7-8700K SEEN IN THE COMPANYS MOTHERBOARD ASROCK Z370 PRO4

POSTER: computer news   ||   RADEON RX VEGA RED KITS ARE NOT AVAILABLE ON THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE	DATE:2017-08-25
One of the peculiarities of the July announcement phase of Radeon RX Vega announcement was AMD's announcement of the intention to sell video cards in three special sets until the end of September, they were ranked by price and composition: "red", "black" and "water".  The first two implied the availability of a reference card design with an air cooling system.  The "red" kit was the most affordable, it used the Radeon RX Vega 56, and was supposed to be offered for $ 499, like the "bare" Radeon RX Vega 64 video card. If you turn now to the AMD site , you can find that the assortment of sets has decreased just for the "red" version, and now the company offers openly only "black" kits and sets based on video cards with an unattended liquid cooling system. Apparently, until AMD is not ready to remind buyers that they will be able to buy "red" kits based on Radeon RX Vega 56 at the announced price in the coming days.  Before the start of sales there is less time, but the situation with Radeon RX Vega 64 suggests that it will not be possible to buy Radeon RX Vega 56 at the recommended price for a while. Select Rating : Currently 10.00/10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 49543 Rating: 10.0/10 (150 votes cast) Radeon RX Vega red kits are not available on the official website	Add Comment ( 1 ) RADEON RX VEGA RED KITS ARE NOT AVAILABLE ON THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE

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