Intel Razor Lake-AX Leak Suggests Return of Integrated Memory on Package
Intel was rumored to be working on a "Nova Lake-AX" processor that was reportedly a direct competitor with both Apple's M-series as well as AMD's Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" chips. It would have been a BGA design with powerful graphics and a wide memory interface, but it was supposedly canceled. Now, rumormongers are talking about a potential successor called Razor Lake-AX that sounds rather similar, and it will apparently also bring the return of Memory-On-Package.
Intel's first and only products to use on-package memory were the Core Ultra 200V processors, code-named Lunar Lake. After the launch of those chips, then-CEO Gelsinger said that Lunar Lake was a "one-off" and that on-package memory created "too many dependencies," by which he was referring to the practical and logistic concerns of selling chips and memory together to OEMs. Gelsinger actually went so far as to call it "a financial mistake".
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