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Obsessed with #TalosII, #POWER9, and open hardware. #OpenPOWER #PPC
Oct 8, 2018 5 tweets 4 min read
Especially once IBM's POWER chips start using chiplets again, I imagine an #OpenPOWER laptop chip becomes dramatically simpler to produce.

On that front, as recently as #POWER8, #IBM was using multiple dies as one processor... The DCM configuration on #POWER8 was an acronym for Dual Chip Module, whereas all #POWER9 chips have been SCM (Single Chip Module).

Although of the chiplet papers that @AdoredTV reads, he hasn't seen any @IBMPowerSystems authors: