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Because interconnects are hard and they had to get the yields up. A lot of people wondered how they would even make this. That’s why they gave the interconnect a proper noun, they are proud of it. Reminds me of HyperTransport back in the first heyday of AMD.
This is when you really want to see a block diagram to see how gimped the you are traveling off the SoC package.
 
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