Advancing the Chiplet Ecosystem

Chiplets can create custom system-on-chips for designs with better performance and lower power consumption compared to monolithic chips.

Alix Paultre

Eddie Ramirez

Related To:

Electronic Design

April 28, 2026

What you'll learn:

The advantage of a chiplet-based IC design.
How Arm is addressing the developing chiplet ecosystem.

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The use of chiplets to create advanced system-on-chips (SoCs) can deliver cost-effective solutions with better performance and lower power consumption when compared to monolithic chips. However, without proper standards and regulations, variations in chipsets could lead to incompatibility issues that can stifle development.

Recently, Arm introduced the Chiplet System Architecture (CSA), providing a set of partitioning and connectivity standards for chiplets to align the industry. The CSA opens the door to chiplet designs that can be used in any compliant system, expediting chiplet-based system innovation while reducing the risk of fragmentation.

AI workloads are reshaping every part of the compute stack, with accelerators taking up more real estate and power. In turn, it drives the need to integrate CPUs, NPUs, GPUs, memory, and I/O in more flexible, efficient ways. Chiplets enable modular design, allowing compute or memory to be scaled independently, which helps optimize power and thermal budgets.

In this podcast, we talk to Eddie Ramirez, VP of Infrastructure Business at Arm, about the chiplet ecosystem and how the company is approaching this space.

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About the Author

Alix Paultre

Editor-at-Large, Electronic Design

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Also check out his YouTube watch-collecting channel, Talking Timepieces.

Eddie Ramirez

VP, Infrastructure Business, Arm

Eddie Ramirez is VP of Infrastructure Business at Arm. He's held previous positions at Western Digital, Seagate Technology and LSI Corp. Eddie holds a BSEE in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.