Intel's Pentium D Exposed A Chiplet Challenge Still Relevant Today
How's your Throwback Thursday going, dear readers? As it happens, we've got a perfect post for you today, thanks to former Intel Performance Architect François Piednoel. Posting on LinkedIn, Piednoel shared an anecdote about his days at Intel as part of a blog entry called "Chiplet, not so fast, did you look at everything?" that highlights one of the major challenges chipmakers face when creating chiplet-based processors.
François Piednoel was an important figure at Intel who was responsible for performance analysis and optimization. His crowning achievement, by his own telling, was introducing the roadmap for moving Intel away from the disappointing NetBurst architecture introduced with the Pentium 4 toward the Core series, which was itself derivedfrom the older P6 core that powered the Pentium Pro, Pentium II, and Pentium III. Before that, though, he worked on the Pentium 4 and its descendants as they were the company's main...
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