When Can I Buy A Chiplet?

Progress is being made in the development of a chiplet ecosystem, but there are many barriers that must be overcome before a thriving marketplace can exist.

By Brian Bailey, Semiconductor Engineering | July 17th, 2025

One year ago, Semiconductor Engineering conducted its first roundtable to find out the true state of the industry for chiplets. At that event, it was stated that no chiplet had ever been reused in a design for which it was not initially intended. How much has changed over the past year? Returning from last year were Mark Kuemerle, vice president of technology for Marvell; Letizia Giuliano, vice president for product marketing and management at Alphawave Semi; Hee-Soo Lee, HSD segment lead for Keysight; Mick Posner, senior product group director for Cadence’s Compute Solutions Group; and Rob Kruger, product management director for Synopsys’ multi-die strategy solutions group. What follows are excerpts from a roundtable discussion held at this year’s Design Automation Conference.

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