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Special Forums News, Links, Events and Announcements A seriously interesting article about fab times. Post 302998080 by cb88 on Wednesday 24th of May 2017 10:58:36 PM

05-24-2017

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That really is a great article, I think one of the ways Intel is going to work around this is multi process chips... so things that aren't as performance intensive are going to be made on older faster cheaper processes, or more optimized processes. So they can make IO optimized drivers for high speed ram interfaces, logic optimized areas for the CPU, and low cost peripheral areas. It is certainly interesting to see companies trying to cope with the limits they are running up against. As well as they can conentrate on making only one sub unit faster per generation... rather than thier tick - tock tock they have been doing. They could do some iteration on aspects of the design without having to worry about parts that won't change getting broken by moving to a new process etc.. .

I've seen some ideas about die stacking of CPU and GPU components instead of chips ram as is done with HBM. So, perhaps they would make tiny very high yeild dies, but stack a bunch of them and run them rather slowly for a higher aggregate speed so they don't fry themselves with heat.

As an aside I've actually seen Daifuku (Wynright is the specific branch I've worked with) equipment installed in several locations where I have been out on an on site setup trip for the equipment my employer makes... very cool cranes (I've seen them shuffling shoe boxes and potato chips) though apparently they shuffle computer chips around as well!

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sdhci

SDHCI(4)						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						  SDHCI(4)

NAME

     sdhci -- PCI SD Host Controller bridge driver

SYNOPSIS

     To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:

	   device mmc
	   device mmcsd
	   device sdhci

     Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following lines in loader.conf(5):

	   mmc_load="YES"
	   mmcsd_load="YES"
	   sdhci_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

     The sdhci driver supports PCI devices with class 8 and subclass 5 according to SD Host Controller Specification.  Driver supports up to six
     high speed 4bit MMC/SD slots per controller.  Driver attaches mmc bus to the respective slot on card insertion and detaches it on card remov-
     ing.

HARDWARE

     The sdhci driver supports different specification compatible chips. The following chips have been verified to work:

     o	 ENE CB712
     o	 ENE CB714
     o	 RICOH R5C822
     o	 RICOH R5CE823
     o	 TI PCIXX21/XX11

SEE ALSO

     mmc(4), mmcsd(4)

     SD Specifications, Part 2, SD Host Controller, Simplified Specification.

AUTHORS

     Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

BUGS

     Many of existing SD controller chips have some nonstandard requirements, proprietary registers and hardware bugs, requiring additional han-
     dling.  ENE chips are handled to work fine, while some revisions of RICOH and TI controllers still do not see cards without some additional
     initialization.

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