Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marco Chiappetta is a technologist who covers semiconductors and AI. The semiconductor industry has undergone a major ...

Manufacturing-aware system design treats dies, interposers, packages, and analysis as a single, coherent system.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Samsung had an industry Foundry event focused on solutions for “Empowering the AI Revolution,” where they announced new process ...

With the recent ratification of the Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) 3.0 standard in August 2025, the industry has finally established a "lingua franca" that allows chips from different ...

For decades, monolithic system-on-chip (“SoC”) designs defined the semiconductor landscape. Introduced in the 1970s[1] and refined over several generations, SoCs allowed designers to integrate ...

Alphawave Semi (LSE: AWE), a global leader in high-speed connectivity and compute silicon for the world’s technology infrastructure, has announced the successful tape-out of its cutting edge UCIe™ 3D ...

The semiconductor industry is at a pivotal moment as the limits of Moore’s Law motivate a transition to three-dimensional integrated circuit (3D IC) technology. By vertically integrating multiple ...

Chiplets serve a similar function as the soft IP widely used in chips today, but the similarities end there. While both can speed time to market and enable design teams to focus limited resources ...

TL;DR: AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor features a thick dummy silicon layer, using 93% of the CCD stack, which is non-functional but necessary for stability. The 3D chiplet is now positioned ...

Why is the optical compute interconnect (OCI) chiplet important? How is Intel’s OCI chiplet implemented? What applications benefit from an OCI chiplet? Intel’s Integrated Photonics Solutions (IPS) ...