The first in mainland China, VeriSilicon joins the UCIe industry alliance: jointly promote the universal chip interconnection standard

This Saturday, Chinese chip design platform-as-a-service companiesVeriSiliconOfficially announced to join the UCIe Industry Alliance, becoming the first company in mainland China to join the industry alliance. VeriSilicon stated that it will work with other members of the UCIe Industry Alliance on the research and application of the UCIe 1.0 specification and the new generation of UCIe technical standards to promote the development of VeriSilicon Chiplet products.

The UCIe Industry Alliance was established at the beginning of this month. It is jointly launched by the world-renowned chip manufacturers Intel, TSMC, Samsung and the leading chip packaging and testing leader ASE, together with AMD, Arm, Qualcomm, Google, Microsoft, Meta and other technology industry giants.A New Common Chip Interconnect Standard.

The standard aims to create a new open standard for chiplet interconnection, simplifying related processes, and improving interoperability between chiplets from different manufacturers.Under this standard, chip manufacturers canHybrid build chips.

After the establishment of the UCIe Industry Alliance, the lack of presence of Chinese mainland enterprises caused heated discussions in the industry. One side believes that the UCIe standard has ambiguous value to the domestic industry. In the context of tense Sino-US relations, the new standard is difficult to help domestic chip manufacturers. To this end, China is also formulating its own Chiplet standard and has entered the stage of soliciting opinions.

Another part of the view is that the UCIe standard is proposed to promote the development of the Chiplet ecosystem, which is a sign of the closer cooperation in the entire semiconductor industry chain. The openness of the UCIe standard is close to several generations of communication protocols, and there is no so-called standard national border.

“The significance of establishing a standard is to establish an ecosystem. The more members participating, the better. The commercial value of establishing another set of standards is not great.” An industry insider said when communicating with Leifeng.com.

Dai Weimin, founder, chairman and president of VeriSilicon, also told Leifeng.com that whether China should make its own Chiplet standard, it needs to be clear that Chinese chips will not only be interconnected with Chinese chips forever, and the CPU and IO interfaces will also become problem. “Since there is an open protocol, an open protocol should be used.”

Now VeriSilicon’s announcement to join the UCIe Industry Alliance also justifies the openness of the UCIe Industry Alliance and standards.

Regarding the development of Chiplet, Dai Weimin said, “Tablet PCs, autonomous driving, and data centers will be the first application areas for Chiplet. Tablet PCs require more heterogeneous processor IPs with different functions, and data centers need to integrate many general-purpose high-performance computing. Modules, automotive-grade Chiplets can greatly improve the iterative efficiency of automotive chips and reduce the potential safety hazards caused by the failure of a single chip, these are the best use scenarios for Chiplets.”

“The efforts that VeriSilicon has made on the Chiplet project in recent years have not only promoted the industrialization of Chiplet, but also pushed VeriSilicon’s semiconductor IP licensing business and one-stop chip customization service business to a new level. VeriSilicon may be the The world’s first batch of companies to launch Chiplet commercial products for customers.” Dai Weimin said.