Complexity and cost remain a barrier to chiplet development.
eetasia.com, Dec. 11, 2024 –
Chiplets are trendy, but not everyone is in a position to get on the bandwagon due to expertise and financial constraints. Efforts are underway, however, to democratize the technology to make chiplet tech more broadly accessible.
A recent update to the Arm Total Design initiative centers on expanding the chiplet ecosystem. A year after it was announced, Arm, Samsung Foundry, ADTechnology and Rebellions have partnered to launch an AI/CPU chiplet platform that targets the cloud, high-performance computing (HPC), and AI/ML training and inference workloads.
The initiative is part of the company's broader aim to accelerate the development of custom silicon and create the hardware foundation for a sustainable AI datacenter, which includes innovation around chiplet technology.
Arm-based chiplets now include those from Alcor Micro, which is powered by Arm's Compute Sub System (CSS) and targets AI/ML training and inference use-cases, while Alphawave's advanced compute chiplet is built on CSS for AI/ML, HPC, datacenter and 5G/6G applications.
The Arm Total Design collective of companies includes those with EDA tools, design expertise, foundry support, and firmware and higher-level software to sit atop designs. In an interview with EE Times, Eddie Ramirez, VP of Arm's infrastructure business, said Arm Total Design now has 29 ecosystem partners since it launched at the OCP Summit. This approach of recruiting partners reflects the reality that all chips are being done by the same design partner.