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28nm die size, wrapped in a 55mm package, with a 2048 ball count for thermal characteristics.
Wtf is so hard to understand? If you don't believe them, then don't buy.
Do you even realize what you said? You just said you are going to have the equivalent of a FOOTBALL FIELD to mount a CPU the size of a lunchbox.
WTF is so hard to understand is
28nm is the LINE WIDTH not the AREA. Please don't comment when it is clear you have @#$% for brains.
Sorry but your before you too have denied yourself.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2714375You say you never use a big package for a small chip.
Instead here says that the intel chips have a die (80 & 130mm2)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2713678When we know that the package of these chips is much higher
Pentium 3 socket 370
Pentium 4 socket 478
I have not found the exact measurements but are between 50x50mm and 60x60mm
This package is a 2500-3600mm2. This is package 21 times biggest than Die
By this mistake I will not say "
Please don't comment when it is clear you have @#$% for brains", a lapsus what has anyone.
Those a PGA SOCKETED chips.
KNC is using BGA UNSOCKETED chips.
PGA vs. BGA is not so big as the Socketed part. You create a socket so that you give people an upgrade path or choice of different CPUs to plug into a universal board that can be used among different CPUs. THIS IS AN EXTRA EXPENSE, so you only do it if you want to cover the market in different tiers of performance (and price) for your product.
KNC is soldering their chips directly to the mainboard - NO SOCKET. Why does this matter? If you don't use a Socket, then your "package" does not need to be nearly as big.
Plus P3/P4 is over a decade old. You don't don't make packages that big anymore. It costs more money over a smaller, compact package.
The fanboys here keep missing the point: EVEN IF 75% of this package is just wasted space, that leaves a die size of 750mm2. That would make this one of, if not the largest, mass-produced dies ever. If true, that's just asking for trouble.
Would love for KNC to post some screens of the wafers or dies and more technical info. IMO you only stay this quiet when you are up a creek without a paddle.
