AMD will never look this good.
>>52557619
AMD doesn't have the money to shoot die shots with color shit like that any more.
Dies actually look like that. Same reason as CDs, but smaller.
>>52557662
Sure they do, just look at those half-cores glistening.
>>52557619
AMD isn't discriminating against people based on race unlike Intel...
If your white or Asian and buying Intel your paying people to hate you.
>>52557619
>>52557946
what the fuck is all that shit?
i did some processor architecture in the cs major (wish i had taken the electives on that to find out more desu) and i cant recognize shit. it also didnt seem like a processor would have nearly that many components. only thing i can make out is the big memory arrays
im serious if someone that knows more could explain i'd be thankful
>>52559095
Guess you learned shit that was deprecated in the 80's.
Those are just 3D generated floorpans, dies don't look that sensational.
>>52559095
I did my best.
>>52559323
You forgot the NB between the L3 cache on the right
>>52559342
You're right.
Instruction fetch and decode should be next to the branch predictor too, I think.
>>52559400
That's part of the core frontend, you probably can't single it out on this image since arr the core components rook same
>>52559400
>>52559342
>>52559323
>believing lies about "technology"
It's all really black magic.
Technology is just the pretext for how the antichrist will take over the world. Step 1 is ensuring everyone has a computer.
>>52559500
>>52559323
thank you m8
>>52559148
mostly, yeah. in the end we learned a lot of more modern stuff for making the processors go faster but it was probably deprecated too since i remember that we once used pentium 4 architecture as an example for something
>>52559180
Not sure. Perhaps they are that shiny, pre-packaging? I've certainly seen a few third-party (decapped) die shots on older processes which look almost that gleaming.
AMD GPU and Intel CPU is the masterrace
>>52559095
You didn't study well.
>>52559323
Stuff around the edges are the memory pads/PHY. HT links, display out, and IO.
Theres a breakdown of the modules themselves.
Does anyone know what textbooks are good for learning modern processor architecture? On a detailed circuitry level, not on an abstract function level (logic diagrams and whatnot).
>>52560705
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSPARC
>>52560733
Thanks anon.
yay cores.
I'm a little turned on.
This is now a core porn thread.
>>52561654
Fun fact: Westmere EX is the largest mass produced x86 die ever done by either AMD or intel at 684mm^2. Knights landing is 1 square millimeter smaller.
>>52561748
kek, speaking of..
>>52561820
And to round out the first gen Core series chips, Nehalem-EX
I wonder why I don't have a silicon porn folder.
>>52561885
Now is the time to make one anon.
I actually have a bunch of wafers with 64 MB RAM chips on them.
They don't look that spectacular, but are nice to look at regardless. Especially in the right light.
>>52560452
Does the FPU not have its own DCache like the integer units? Why isn't the FPU physically closer to the decoders like the int units?
>>52561424
>muh filter
Fucking Intel
Remember a time where you could actually see transistors?
>>52561424
that shit is fucking magic to me, mate
just look at he middle left
this doesn't look like it's made on purpose; it looks like a fucking videogame glitch
the CPU architects are fucking madmen
>>52562011
It's actually not filters.
Just different process steps that make some parts shine in different colors.
Haswell-E die, also used in the consumer i7 LGA 2011 chips.
I have one of these as my main CPU by the way, all cores enabled. No overclocking though, and because of this board's shitty bios turbo is fucked.
>>52562118
Jim'll Fix It.
I don't know what's there to like about that random colored bullshit. This is how men build computers.
>>52562589
that random colored bullshit as you put it are the actual CPU dies themselves. Real men design and build "that random colored bullshit" for a living so you can shitpost about it on the internet.
>>52562589
Real men make their own semiconductors.
>>52562617
real men use water
![waferchocolate_1405406267[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/afOpe2X.jpg "waferchocolate_1405406267[1].jpg")
>>52562689
real men eat their wafers
>>52561967
How big is the whole thing?
>>52562689
There's one better to look at then the half-adder there.
this thread makes me wanna solder my own cpu
>>52562589
>corsair
>men
More like manchildren
>>52562918
8" wafer
>>52559323
Mmmmmm girl, this is why I'm going into computer engineering, I want to take part in designing these magnificent things. Either that or research and development on something like monoatomic transistors.
>>52563694
I have a tough time picturing a transistor smaller than 2 or 3 atoms, since the transistors I know need 2 inputs and 1 output and I can't really see 2 inputs going into the same atom not screwing with each other in some way.
>>52563821
At one atom the elementary particles themselves must become your i/o. Quantum physics basically forces this scheme on us, since, you know, electrons can just decide to be on the other side of something if it's small enough.
http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v7/n4/fig_tab/nnano.2012.21_F1.html
>>52562055
Like looking down on a city
>>52564053
yes, all them gated communities
>>52562118
you just leaked zen
>>52564107
Good one
>>52559500
>tfw you're actually right but you look like a nutjob
I guess in time there will be no argument.
>>52562118
>>52562118
I bet thats how the summit ridge cpu's die looks like
Huh, forgot to post this earlier.
Look at (probably machine generated) cluster-fuckery
>>52566420
Why is all that brown hiding most of the stuff?
>>52566420
Yeah okay but how does it perform compared to a human designed chip
>>52566420
i-is that meat
