Robert Hallock, director of technical marketing at AMD, talked about Intel’s large and small core architecture in a recent interview with KitGuru and explained why AMD is still content with the convention of only using the large cores method.
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According to reports, Robert Hallock pointed out that Intel has been using an iterative design of the Skylake core, which has been limited in chip size as the core size has become larger. Intel has struggled to increase the number of large cores due to size issues. AMD’s Zen architecture core is much smaller by comparison.
Moreover, Robert Hallock added that AMD’s Zen architecture is extremely scalable. To address the chip size issue, AMD also uses a “chiplet” modular approach. For this chiplet design approach, Intel also once called it “gluing the cores together.”
Furthermore, the sources believe that although AMD does not need to adopt a hybrid architecture of large and small cores yet, its patent shows that the company is already working on such a design. It is not clear whether the patent will be used in the Zen series itself, or if AMD will launch a new processor separately.
