chip design Archives

Powering a Chip: How Electricity Reaches Billions of Transistors

Delivering steady power to an AI accelerator is a major engineering task. Here is how voltage regulation and power delivery work, from the rack down to...

AI accelerator package with a central processor and surrounding memory stacks.

Compute & Silicon5 months ago

Why On-Chip Memory Is Getting Harder to Shrink

Logic transistors keep getting denser, but the fast SRAM memory built into chips has not kept pace. Here is why, and how designers are responding.

Compute & Silicon5 months ago

Wafer-Scale Chips: What Happens When a Chip Fills the Whole Wafer

Most chips are cut from wafers in many small pieces. Some designs keep the whole wafer as one giant processor. Here is how wafer-scale chips work...

Electronics production line assembling accelerator circuit boards.

Compute & Silicon5 months ago

From Idea to Tape-Out: How a Chip Is Designed

Before a chip is manufactured, it goes through years of design, simulation and verification. Here is a walk-through of the chip design process.

AI Data-Center Power: Why Compute Is Becoming an Energy Problem

Explainers6 months ago

Chiplets: Why Big Chips Are Being Built From Smaller Pieces

Instead of one giant slab of silicon, many advanced processors are now assembled from several smaller dies. Here is why the chiplet approach caught on.