Chiplet Summit 2024: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Path Forward for Chiplets

By Credo

February 22, 2024

“Heterogeneous technology” and “disaggregation” were key terms used in keynotes, tutorials, panels, and individual sessions throughout the Chiplet Summit. Simply put, it is how to take something that was once whole and break it down into many pieces. As you start to “disaggregate” or “cut up” a monolithic chip/die like a complex CPU or GPU you end up with many different pieces. These pieces are now independent and can be used in many ways. What defines how these pieces are used is dependent on the use case and application. These independent pieces are what we call Chiplets.

The ingenuity of Chiplets and their multitude of use cases and designs has also introduced challenges that can turn the benefits and appeal of Chiplets into something counterintuitive and not useful.  Hence, the increased focus around standardization and the effort to create an even playing field to promote adoption.

Chiplets growing popularity

Let’s begin with outlining Chiplet benefits, as every keynote speaker did in their first few slides, in no particular order.

• Faster time to market
• Portfolio expansion
• Higher margins
• R&D efficiency

Market research firm Yole showed the following data to explain the value of Chiplets and I think it captured the overall message of the conference:

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