Interconnects

TSMC Announces 2x Reticle CoWoS For Next-Gen 5nm HPC Applications

Interconnects Packaging Process Technologies March 3, 2020 0

TSMC announces an enhancement to its CoWoS packaging technology with support for up to 2x the reticle size. The new technology is ready for next-generation 5-nanometer HPC applications.

7nm Boosted Zen 2 Capabilities but Doubled the Challenges

Architectures Floorplanning Interconnects ISSCC 2020 February 21, 2020 2

The transition to 7 nm greatly enhanced AMD silicon capabilities but introduced new drastic design challenges that required new place and route methodologies and wire engineering.

Inside Rosetta: The Engine Behind Cray’s Slingshot Exascale-Era Interconnect

Architectures Hot Interconnects 26 Interconnects Supercomputers February 9, 2020 0

A dive into the Rosetta ASIC switch, the engine behind Cray’s new Slingshot interconnect powering the upcoming Shasta exascale supercomputers.

Ayar Labs Realizes Co-Packaged Silicon Photonics

Architectures Circuit Design Hot Chips 31 Interconnects Packaging January 19, 2020 0

Integrated photonics has long been considered a holy grail for communication. Ayar Labs TeraPHY chiplet represents a major step forward through the co-packaging of the optical interface along with an SoC.

OCP Bunch of Wires: A New Open Chiplets Interface For Organic Substrates

Hot Interconnects Hot Interconnects 26 Interconnects January 5, 2020 0

A look at a Bunch of Wires, a new open standard chiplets interconnect being proposed by the OCP ODSA group intended for standard organic multi-chip packages as a cheaper alternative to silicon interposers and bridges.

OCP Makes a Push for an Open Chiplet Marketplace

Interconnects Packaging January 4, 2020 0

Jumping ahead of emerging semiconductor trends, the OCP new Open Domain-Specific Architecture subgroup makes a push for an open and standardized chiplet interface and marketplace.

TSMC Digs Trenches In Search Of Higher Performance

IEDM 2019 Interconnects Packaging Process Technologies December 14, 2019 0

TSMC leverages existing silicon in the CoWoS process to improve the power delivery system of high-performance applications through new, deep trench capacitors, codename iCAPs.

A Look at Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine: Half Square Foot Silicon Chip

Architectures Hot Chips 31 Interconnects Neural Processors Packaging November 16, 2019 0

A look at Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE), a chip the size of a wafer, packing over 400K tiny AI cores using 1.2 trillion transistors on a half square foot of silicon.

IBM Adds POWER9 AIO, Pushes for an Open Memory-Agnostic Interface

Architectures Hot Chips 31 Interconnects Server Processors November 3, 2019 0

IBM adds a third variant of POWER9, the POWER9 Advanced I/O (AIO) processor which incorporates the Open Memory Interface (OMI), a new open memory-agnostic interface.

GlobalFoundries, Arm Demonstrate High-Density 3D Stacked Mesh Interconnect for HPC Applications

Architectures Interconnects Packaging Process Technologies September 21, 2019 2

GlobalFoundries and Arm demonstrate a 3D mesh interconnect design using highly-dense hybrid bonding 3D stacking technology intended for HPC applications.