Skyscraper-style chip design boosts performance 1,000-fold

[AlTech]

@Terry Does this mean we can have 8 cores stacked on top of each other? How much power efficiency will this stuff bring?

[ADM-Ntek]

maybe this would be a a place to use micro Chanel water cooling or whatever it was called. or use direct contact vapor chambers.

[deviant88]

Well i know they have showed a possible solution. Small channels where water can flow through to cool it off. Yes you still need a rad and such things but it's just a cpu block squished between the cpu layers instead being on top of everything.

That sounds cool but its very impractical for mobile devices and such, its probably going to be a server/high end desktop thing,still if they can even get a prototype for servers or supercomputers with the skyscraper design and even 100x fold performance not 1000x i would be damned impressed, the digital world needs a revolution in chips and fast, we are stagnating with silicon and moore's law.

[samcool55]

That sounds cool but its very impractical for mobile devices and such, its probably going to be a server/high end desktop thing,still if they can even get a prototype for servers or supercomputers with the skyscraper design and even 100x fold performance not 1000x i would be damned impressed, the digital world needs a revolution in chips and fast, we are stagnating with silicon and moore's law.

Yes i agree it's not designed for mobile use, but even if it stays limited to desktops and servers that's tbh good enough. It uses completely different chips anyway soo...

 

And who knows maybe if it does get developed for desktops it might find it's way into our mobile phones. Maybe in the form of a heatpipe or something similar like we use in heatsinks. 

[Sauron]

Soooooo... HBM?