Splitting complex chip designs into multi-chiplet solutions is all the rage these days. AMD already uses multi-chiplet designs for its CPUs and datacenter GPUs, and it also has less complex chiplets for its current generation RDNA 3 RX 7000-series GPUs. Now it looks like the company is looking to produce more complex multi-chiplet GPUs for a wider range of applications, according to a new patent filed on December 8, 2022, and discovered this week.
"A graphics processing unit (GPU) of a processing system is partitioned into multiple dies (referred to as GPU chiplets) that are configurable to collectively function and interface with an application as a single GPU in a first mode and as multiple GPUs in a second mode," the abstract description of the patent application reads.
