The world’s biggest chipmakers are coming together to create a newVirtually every major name in processor technology is onboard with the, including foundry owners like Intel, TSMC, and Samsung and major players in semiconductor-adjacent spaces, like AMD, Arm, Qualcomm, Meta, Google Cloud, and Microsoft.
The goal with UCIe is to create a standard for connecting chiplets together, making it easier for companies to mix and match different chiplet components when building SoCs. The idea is that tech companies will be able to simply slot in different chiplet components into their designs, similar to how you can simply slot in any PCIe compatible accessory to your computer .
There are a few benefits to the chiplet system. Chiplets can lead to less waste . There are also benefits in chip design, allowing companies to shrink down critical components to new, smaller processing nodes without having to shrink down the entirety of the SoC to match. Lastly, combining chiplets together lets companies make bigger chips than they could with a single, monolithic design.