plural chiplets
: a small modular integrated circuit component that is designed to provide a specific function
A chiplet is one part of a processing module that makes up a larger integrated circuit like a computer processor. Rather than manufacturing a processor on a single piece of silicon with the desired number of cores, chiplets allow manufacturers … to use multiple smaller chips to make up a larger integrated circuit.—
Tim Brookes
Tim BrookesInstead of carving new processors from silicon as single chips, semiconductor companies assemble them from multiple smaller pieces of silicon—known as chiplets.—Tom Simonite
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How much of the architecture can be separated out onto chiplets?
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 June 2023
That issue has now landed chiplets in the middle of U.S. industrial policymaking.
—Don Clark, New York Times, 11 May 2023
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IEEE Spectrum, 27 June 2023
That issue has now landed chiplets in the middle of U.S. industrial policymaking.
—Don Clark, New York Times, 11 May 2023
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“Chiplet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chiplet. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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