Streamlining Functional Verification for Multi-Die and Chiplet Designs

Streamlining Functional Verification for Multi-Die and Chiplet Designs
by Daniel Nenni on 08-14-2025 at 6:00 am

Streamlining Functional Verification for Multi Die and Chiplet Designs

As multi-die and chiplet-based system designs become more prevalent in advanced electronics, much of the focus has been on physical design challenges. However, verification—particularly functional correctness and interoperability of inter-die connections—is just as critical. Interfaces such as UCIe or custom interconnects… Read More


UCIe 3.0: Doubling Bandwidth and Deepening Manageability for the Chiplet Era

UCIe 3.0: Doubling Bandwidth and Deepening Manageability for the Chiplet Era
by Daniel Nenni on 08-05-2025 at 10:00 am

Chiplet SemiWiki UCIe

The Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) 3.0 specification marks a decisive step in the industry’s shift from monolithic SoCs to modular, multi-die systems. Released on August 5, 2025, the new standard doubles peak link speed from 32 GT/s in UCIe 2.0 to 48 and 64 GT/s while adding a suite of manageability and efficiency

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cHBM for AI: Capabilities, Challenges, and Opportunities

cHBM for AI: Capabilities, Challenges, and Opportunities
by Kalar Rajendiran on 07-31-2025 at 6:00 am

cHBM Panelists at Synopsys Executive Forum

AI’s exponential growth is transforming semiconductor design—and memory is now as critical as compute. Multi-die architecture has emerged as the new frontier, and custom High Bandwidth Memory (cHBM) is fast becoming a cornerstone in this evolution. In a panel session at the Synopsys Executive Forum, leaders from AWS, Marvell,… Read More


Alphawave Semi and the AI Era: A Technology Leadership Overview

Alphawave Semi and the AI Era: A Technology Leadership Overview
by Daniel Nenni on 07-14-2025 at 8:00 am

AI Market Silicon Forecast 2025

The explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the data center landscape, pushing the boundaries of compute, connectivity, and memory technologies. The exponential growth in AI workloads—training large language models (LLMs), deploying real-time inference, and scaling distributed applications—has … Read More


Intel’s Path to Technological Leadership: Transforming Foundry Services and Embracing AI

Intel’s Path to Technological Leadership: Transforming Foundry Services and Embracing AI
by Kalar Rajendiran on 05-06-2025 at 10:00 am

Compressed Dont be encumbered by history

Intel, long a leader in semiconductor manufacturing, is on a determined journey to reclaim its technological leadership in the industry. After facing significant challenges in recent years, the company is making a concerted effort to adapt and innovate, with a clear focus on AI-driven technologies, advanced packaging solutions,… Read More


Design IP Market Increased by All-time-high: 20% in 2024!

Design IP Market Increased by All-time-high: 20% in 2024!
by Eric Esteve on 04-14-2025 at 10:00 am

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Design IP revenues achieved $8.5B in 2024 and this is an all-time-high growth of 20%. Wired Interface is still driving Design IP growth with 23.5% but we see the Processor category also growing by 22.4% in 2024. This is consistent with the Top 4 IP companies made of ARM (mostly focused on processor) and a team leading wired interface… Read More


A Synopsys Webinar Detailing IP Requirements for Advanced AI Chips

A Synopsys Webinar Detailing IP Requirements for Advanced AI Chips
by Mike Gianfagna on 04-03-2025 at 10:00 am

A Synopsys Webinar Detailing IP Requirements for Advanced AI Chips

Generative AI is dramatically changing the compute power that must be delivered by advanced designs. This demand has risen by more than 10,000 times in the past five to six years.  This increased demand has impacted the entire SoC design flow. We are now faced with going beyond 1 trillion transistors per chip, and systems now consist… Read More


Powering the Future: How Engineered Substrates and Material Innovation Drive the Semiconductor Revolution

Powering the Future: How Engineered Substrates and Material Innovation Drive the Semiconductor Revolution
by Kalar Rajendiran on 03-03-2025 at 6:00 am

Substrate Vision Summit Engineered Substrate Panel Session

Engineered substrate technology is driving an evolution within the semiconductor industry. As Moore’s Law reaches its limits, the focus is shifting from traditional planar wafer scaling to innovative material engineering and 3D integration. Companies like Soitec, Intel and Samsung are pioneering this transition, unlocking… Read More


Podcast EP276: How Alphawave Semi is Fueling the Next Generation of AI Systems with Letizia Giuliano

Podcast EP276: How Alphawave Semi is Fueling the Next Generation of AI Systems with Letizia Giuliano
by Daniel Nenni on 02-28-2025 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Letizia Giuliano, Vice President of Product Marketing and Management at Alphawave Semi. She specializes in architecting cutting-edge solutions for high-speed connectivity and chiplet design architecture. Prior to her role at Alphawave Semi, Letizia held the position of Product Line Manager at Intel, where… Read More


Harnessing Modular Vector Processing for Scalable, Power-Efficient AI Acceleration

Harnessing Modular Vector Processing for Scalable, Power-Efficient AI Acceleration
by Jonah McLeod on 02-24-2025 at 6:00 am

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The dominance of GPUs in AI workloads has long been driven by their ability to handle massive parallelism, but this advantage comes at the cost of high-power consumption and architectural rigidity. A new approach, leveraging a chiplet-based RISC-V vector processor, offers an alternative that balances performance, efficiency,… Read More