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The Intel Kaby Lake-G chips are so complex that they

Sept. 29, 2018 by Katherine Berry

The Intel Kaby Lake-G chips are so complex that they are called discrete devices, or DA. The technology is also called "DAS," for "digital crystal."

"The DA technology is designed to provide a higher level of reliability, speed, and flexibility than any other technology in the market, and it works well in the embedded world," said Scott O'Neill, CTO of Intel. "The DA technology will enable a more robust and flexible memory interface, and the industry is excited about the potential of this technology in today's market."

The new processor architecture allows for increased speed and power efficiency, even when there is no interconnect for the chip or the processor dies.

"We've developed the EMIB technology to further address the problems associated with single-die chips," said O'Neill.

EMIB and DA are used on the AMD Radeon R9 290 (reference model) and the GeForce GTX 980 (reference model), both of which use the same processor architecture. The AMD model is based on the R9 290, which uses the same EMIB technology as the R9 290. But because the R9 290 uses the same EMIB technology as the GeForce GTX 980 (reference model), AMD is not able to support the new architectures.

"It is important for us to be very precise about how AMD will address the challenges associated with multi-die architectures. I am very confident that AMD will be able to help us provide the most powerful, highest-performance, and most effective memory in the industry. We will support AMD and the industry with our architecture and with the best possible performance, so we will be able to provide the most powerful, highest-performance and most effective memory in the industry," said O'Neill.