The Year of the Chiplet

By Brian Faith

July 19, 2024

I recently spoke with Kash Johal, founder and CEO of YorChip. To say he’s excited about what he predicts will be a “Chiplet revolution” would be an understatement.

Kash confirmed our first jointly developed FPGA Chiplets integrating QuickLogic IP are on schedule to be available in 2H 2025. Going forward, this FPGA Chiplet product line will be expanded to include devices ranging from 40K LUTs to over one million LUTs. This timing aligns well with Kash’s prediction that 2026 will be “the year of the Chiplet.”

Due to yield challenges on large die sizes using advanced fabrication technology and the huge fixed costs for these new designs, many companies are adopting Chiplets as the solution. Chiplet designs offer not only improved yield, lower costs, and shorter development cycles, but also open new design opportunities and with FPGA Chiplets, the ability to adapt to evolving customer requirements needed for many of the emerging IoT and AI/ML applications.

One of the many applications we anticipate for FPGA Chiplets is in novel AI/ML designs that tightly couple with RISC V Chiplets where FPGA logic can implement domain specific instructions seamlessly within RISC V instruction sets and adapt to frequently changing acceleration algorithms.

It is widely believed the broad adoption of the UCIe (Unified Chiplet Interconnect express) interface, which is supported by industry leaders including AMD, Arm, Google Cloud, Intel, Meta, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Samsung and TSMC will enable the rapid adoption of Chiplets.

As I noted earlier this year during our quarterly conference call, research firm, Market U.S. forecasts Chiplet revenue will increase at a CAGR of over 40% during the ten-year period ending in 2033. Through our partnership with YorChip, we believe we are well positioned to ride that wave of growth.

We’re very excited about our partnership with YorChip that we introduced in a press release last year and look forward to participating with them at “Chiplets: Building the Future of SoCs” virtual event on July 24th at 11:50AM PDT You can register for this at the following link: Chiplets: Building the Future of SoCs (eetimes.com)