The Rise of the Chiplet
I&#x27;m a bit baffled about chiplets stealing all the headlines in the tech news sites ever since AMD started using them in Ryzen, with people preaching this to be <i>the</i> AMD &amp; TSMC killer innovation when actually we&#x27;ve seen them in consumer chips for over 15 years now, from Intel at least<p>The Intel Pentium D in 2005 was basically two Pentium CPU  dies glued close to each other on the same package to create the first ever consumer dual core CPU.[1]<p>The Intel Core 2 Quad from 2007 was basically two separate Core 2 Due dies glued close to each other on the same package to create the first ever quad core consumer CPU.<p>I had a 2011 laptop with an Intel P4600 Celeron chip that had the discrete CPU die and GPU dies separated, both on the same package.[2] I remember this clearly since I first took it apart to clean the fan and apply new thermal paste and I was surprised to see two different dies on the package.<p>And those are the chiplet based chips I know off the top of my head, there probably are even more earlier designs I don&#x27;t know about, so is there some hidden chiplet agenda that sprung up recently which I&#x27;m missing or what&#x27;s going on?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hardwarezone.com.sg&#x2F;m&#x2F;feature-intels-pentium-xe-965-and-955-processors&#x2F;presler-core" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hardwarezone.com.sg&#x2F;m&#x2F;feature-intels-pentium-xe-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.x86-guide.net&#x2F;Xhoba&#x2F;en&#x2F;collection&#x2F;Intel-Celeron-P4600-cpu-no12016.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.x86-guide.net&#x2F;Xhoba&#x2F;en&#x2F;collection&#x2F;Intel-Celeron-...</a>