Arm Aims to Democratize Chiplets

By Gary Hilson, EETimes (December 3, 2024)

Chiplets are trendy, but not everyone is in a position to get on the bandwagon due to expertise and financial constraints. Efforts are underway, however, to democratize the technology to make chiplet tech more broadly accessible.

A recent update to the Arm Total Design initiative centers on expanding the chiplet ecosystem. A year after it was announced, Arm, Samsung Foundry, ADTechnology and Rebellions have partnered to launch an AI/CPU chiplet platform that targets the cloud, high-performance computing (HPC), and AI/ML training and inference workloads.

The initiative is part of the company’s broader aim to accelerate the development of custom silicon and create the hardware foundation for a sustainable AI datacenter, which includes innovation around chiplet technology.

Arm-based chiplets now include those from Alcor Micro, which is powered by Arm’s Compute Sub System (CSS) and targets AI/ML training and inference use-cases, while Alphawave’s advanced compute chiplet is built on CSS for AI/ML, HPC, datacenter and 5G/6G applications.

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