INTEL IS BUILDING METEOR LAKE CHIPS LIKE YOU BUILD YOUR PC. IT’S A BIG DEAL
Many of us have become used to building our own PCs, inserting graphics cards and SSDs into a motherboard. Intel chief executive Pat Gelsinger sees a sea change coming to the chip industry where the chips inside your PC are “assembled” in very much the same way.
This matters. For years, a PC’s processor has been a relatively simple affair, made by a single company on a single-process technology. But something happened in March of this year that will allow Intel and other companies to mix and match specific pieces of logic inside a single chip, in almost exactly the way PC makers build PCs.
That was the introduction of the Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe), and the concept is . Use different “tiles,” or chiplets, plug them into a base tile, and connect all of them via the UCIe standardized interface to build the chip of the future. It’s pretty easy to see this “base tile” as a motherboard of sorts, with various components attached to it: graphics, I/O, and so on.
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