DSC00003.JPGThe short answer is that the mass produced parts will be exactly the same design as the low volume 65nm 16-core prototypes we have in place today. This way we minimize project risk.
Getting nice high res pictures is actually a bit of a challenge. We use nine metal layers on our chip, with the top layer being dedicated to supplies. Unless we etch away the toplayer, the picture will just look like a boring plate of metal and not at all like the fancy die shots you would generally see from BigCo. We could go ahead and spend some money/time to get it done, but that will have to wait. In the meantime, here is a picture of our 16-core wirebond package (with the die in the middle).Statistics: Posted by aolofsson — Tue Jan 15, 2013 3:01 am
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