96-core processor on six chips

© CEA-Leti.

For decades, the trend was for more and more of a computer’s systems to be integrated onto a single chip. Today’s system-on-chips, which power smartphones and servers alike, are the result. But complexity and cost are starting to erode the idea that everything should be on a single slice of silicon. Already, some of the most of advanced processors, such as AMD’s Zen 2 processor family, are actually a collection of chiplets bound together by high-bandwidth connections within a single package. This week at the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco, French research organization CEA-Leti showed how far this scheme can go, creating a 96-core processor out of six chiplets.

⇨ IEEE Spectrum, Samuel K. Moore, “96-Core Processor Made of Chiplets.”