The Modular Revolution: Why the Chiplet Market is Exploding
The semiconductor industry is in the midst of a profound transformation, moving beyond the limits of traditional monolithic chip design. The star of this new era? Chiplets. No longer just a buzzword, chiplets represent a modular future for integrated circuits, and the market built around them is growing at an incredible pace, poised to redefine computing from data centers to your pocket.
What Exactly is a Chiplet?
Think of a traditional, monolithic chip as a single, massive custom-built mansion—every function, from the CPU to the memory controller, is etched onto one large piece of silicon. A defect in one part can doom the whole structure.
A chiplet, by contrast, is a small, specialized, modular integrated circuit (die) that performs a specific function. Instead of one huge, complex chip, designers can create a complete system by combining multiple "known good" chiplets—a CPU…