Defining The Chiplet Socket

The industry may have started with the wrong approach for enabling a third-party chiplet ecosystem, but who will step in and fix it?

By Brian Bailey, semiengineering.com (August 29th, 2024)

Experts At The Table: The semiconductor industry has been buzzing with the possibilities surrounding chiplets, but so far this packaging technology has been confined to large semiconductor companies that are vertically integrated. The industry has been attempting to open this up to a broader group of people. To work out what this means for chiplets, and what standardization will be required, Semiconductor Engineering sat down with Elad Alon, CEO Blue Cheetah; Mark Kuemerle, vice president of technology at Marvell; Kevin Yee, senior director of IP and ecosystem marketing at Samsung; Sailesh Kumar, CEO of Baya Systems; and Tanuja Rao, executive director, business development at Synopsys. What follows are excerpts of that discussion, which was held at the Design Automation Conference.

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