Intel to Bring back FIVR after Skylake and Kaby Lake CPUs

[WYP]

Intel are reported to be vring back Fully integrated Voltage regulator (FIVR) after their Skylake and Kaby Lake CPUs.

Read more on Intel's FIVR and Ice lake CPUs here.

 

[Greenback]

Might get an updated 2500k

 

[NeverBackDown]

Gonna be waiting for a couple years then with all these delays

 

[kc5vdj]

Second foundry delays their 10nm.

http://www.kitguru.net/components/c...0nm-risk-production-actual-chips-due-in-2017/

 

[kc5vdj]

And if anyone paying attention to Computex didn't figure this out then from the boards with massive numbers of power phases, there is this from Jun 18, purporting to be a delidded i7-6700K with a notable absence of the FIVR array, globbed on TIM, and the same black glue that causes the gap issue, along with a notably smaller die.

I'll bet five USD right now that even more people are going to have to delid, as the basic problem still isn't solved. The glue causes the gap, the gap varies from chip to chip, requiring the thick TIM layer.

They removed it because they still cannot solder.

Could the future reintroduction mean a return to dies large enough to withstand soldering? Maybe massively SMP?

Delidded 6700K: http://www.kitguru.net/components/c...skylake-de-lidded-small-die-and-ngptim-found/