For decades, the number of transistors that could be squeezed onto a single piece of silicon had increased on the principle of Moore’s Law, an observation that the speed and capability of computers can be expected to double every two years. However, in recent years Moore's Law has slowed down significantly, forcing the semiconductor industry to look for different ways to boost the performance and efficiency of CPUs.
In 2018, a new type of chip design that many hailed as an industry breakthrough in performance and scalability made its debut. AMD debuted this new “chiplet” technology in the AMD “Zen 2”-based 2nd Gen EPYC server processor (formerly codenamed “Rome”), which will go down in history as the first processor to feature a revolutionary chiplet-based x86 CPU design.
