TechInsights dissects the R9 Fury X's HBM interface
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Before the Fiji chip in AMD's Radeon R9 Fury X and R9 Fury graphics cards was revealed, we knew quite a bit about its high-bandwidth memory (HBM) tech. Now that those cards have been released, TechInsights has dissected the Fury family's unique memory architecture. EETimes has a meaty taste of the full report, including several close-up photos of the insides of the HBM and GPU dies.
The report shows how SK Hynix built and connected groups of memory dies to build each stacked HBM module, down to the oxide bonds. Another photo shows the 2,100 through-silicon ...