Quad-core Ryzen chip takes up less space than Intel’s Skylake
AMD has pulled off a design feat when it comes to manufacturing its latest Ryzen processors – which are due to land imminently – with the CPU being more compact than a 14nm Skylake processor from Intel, and doubling up on the amount of L2 cache, too.
According to a report from EE Times , engineers from AMD made these revelations in a paper which stated that a 14m quad-core Ryzen processor was just over 10% smaller than a 14nm quad-core Skylake CPU, taking up 44mm2 in terms of its area, compared to 49mm2 for the latter.
The Zen-based effort from AMD will also boast 512KB of L2 cache in comparison to 256KB on board the Intel chip.
These are design wins which add to the current feeling of anticipation building around the Ryzen CPUs, which it’s hoped will make AMD competitive again in the processor world – meaning lower prices for processors all-round in the longer run, with any luck.
