chiplet

noun

chip·​let ˈchip-lət 

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

Instead of carving new processors from silicon as single chips, semiconductor companies assemble them from multiple smaller pieces of silicon—known as chiplets.

—Tom Simonite

Examples of chiplet in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

How much of the architecture can be separated out onto chiplets? —IEEE Spectrum, 27 June 2023

Intel’s high-performance computing accelerator Ponte Vecchio (now called Intel Data Center GPU Max) is made up of 47 chiplets built using two different processes, each from both Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. —IEEE Spectrum, 24 May 2023

Today, companies typically design all the chiplets in a package along with their own connection technology. —Don Clark, New York Times, 11 May 2023

That issue has now landed chiplets in the middle of U.S. industrial policymaking. —Don Clark, New York Times, 11 May 2023

The Commerce Department said setting new standards for these practices would pave the way for the creation of marketplaces in which companies could assemble new products using chiplets from multiple vendors. —Don Clark, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2023

Word History

Etymology

chip entry 1 + -let

First Known Use

1985, in the meaning defined above