TSMC (Not Intel) Makes the Vast Majority of Logic Tiles on Intel “Meteor Lake” MCM
Intel’s future “Meteor Lake” processor is the principal large scale manufacturing client processor to exemplify the organization’s IDM 2.0 assembling system — one of building processors with different rationale tiles interconnected with Foveros and a base-tile (basically an interposer). Each tile is based on a silicon creation process generally reasonable to it, so the most developed hub could be held for the part that advantages from it the most. For instance, while you really want the SIMD parts of the iGPU to be based on a high level low-power hub, you needn’t bother with its presentation regulator and media motor to, and these could be consigned to a tile based on a less high level hub. This way Intel can boost its utilization of wafers for the most exceptional hubs in an evaluated design.
Japanese tech distribution PC Watch has clarified the “Meteor Lake” SoC, and brings up that by far most of the chip’s tiles and rationale bite the dust region is produced on TSMC hubs. The MCM comprises of four rationale tiles — the CPU tile, the Graphics tile, the SoC tile, and the I/O tile. The four sit on a base tile that works with outrageous thickness infinitesimal wiring interconnecting the rationale tiles. The base tile is based on the 22 nm HKMG silicon creation hub. This tile misses the mark on rationale, and just interconnects the tiles. Intel has a functioning 22 nm hub, and concluded it has the right thickness to get everything done.
The CPU tile is the main rationale tile based on an Intel hub, which for this situation is the Intel 4 hub. The organization believes this cycle to be on-par or better than TSMC’s N5, and it presumably needed the royal gems of its IP — CPU centers — to be based on a local fab. The CPU tile contains the CPU centers, a last-level reserve, and Foveros interfaces.
The Graphics tile is the second-most significant rationale tile, and contains an iGPU in light of the Xe-LPG designs engineering. An advancement of Xe-LP, the LPG includes continuous beam following abilities. Intel chose to utilize the TSMC N5 (5 nm EUV) hub for this tile. Not the iGPU is all in view of this tile, some of it, like the Display Engine, could be situated on the I/O tile.
The SoC tile is the biggest concerning region, and is based on the TSMC N6 (6 nm) hub. This contains the memory regulators, PCIe root-complex, and the regulators and SerDes (serializer-deserializer) of the different on-bundle gadgets. The I/O pass on is the littlest kick the bucket, and is basically an augmentation of the SoC bite the dust. It’s based on a similar TSMC N6 hub, and elements the PHY (actual layer) parts of the different I/O.
