How and Why Chiplets are Growing in Use and Need

By Ken Briodagh, Embedded Computing Design (May 6, 2024)

Ever since Gordon Moore made his eponymous prediction in 1965, it’s been inevitable that we would reach an end to the ability to keep doubling the processing in individual chips, if only because of the laws of physics (at the macro scale anyway – we’ll cover quantum computing another time!).

Since Moore has been so reliably correct, well beyond even the time when many early doomsayers said we’d hit the limits, mostly thanks to advancements in materials science and electrical engineering, there haven’t been many solutions presented to the problem of reaching that Moore horizon. In fact, many times when the topic comes up it’s not unusual to see shrugging shoulders and waved hands as the majority responses. If ain’t broke (yet), why fix it?

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