Mark Papermaster at World Summit AI 2026 Talks Holistic Computing, Chiplets and AI Sovereignty

In this video interview Mark Papermaster, CTO of AMD, talks to Nitin Dahad of EE Times at the World Summit AI 2026 conference in Amsterdam in The Netherlands.

We explore semiconductor trends, especially with recent news like AMD's World Labs acquisition, and how chipmakers are moving into providing more of the AI and compute stack; to chiplets, heterogeneous design, and sovereign AI.

We disuss the following key topics:

  • the stack strategy & M&A, especially the broad systems play that chip companies are moving to;
  • co-designing hardware with physical AI;
  • the next chapter of chiplet design;
  • balancing general-purpose flexibility vs. domain-specific ASICs:
  • the engineering reality of "sovereign AI".