Keynote Panel: Chiplets in the RISC-V Ecosystem

Keynote Panel: Chiplets in the RISC-V Ecosystem - Aniket Saha, Tenstorrent; Dale Greenley, Ventana Micro Systems; Laurent Moll, Arteris; Rob Aitken, Synopsys; Calista Redmond, RISC-V International

Speakers: Dale Greenley, Rob Aitken, Laurent Moll, Aniket Saha
Chiplet-based architectures are being employed by a number of companies in the semiconductor industry as a solution for optimizing performance and power consumption, and addressing domain-specific computing problems.

The RISC-V community has seen this trend also, especially with companies developing high end RISC-V processors for data center, AI, automotive and HPC markets. However, chiplets have their own issues to get to production, including interconnects and communications, the processing subsystem architecture and software integration. Some companies are using current interconnect and communications technologies, while others are using photonics technologies to provide additional performance and power consumption benefits. Similarly in the processing subsystem, there are a mix of approaches including internal development of the processing components and licensing of RISC-V processor IP.

This panel represents different technology choices that have been made in the community, and will discuss those choices, all the while trying to answer the overriding question: Are chiplets the vehicle that enables high-end RISC-V based processing?