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You might have heard your computer processor referred to as the “brain” of your computer. Similar to your brain’s multiple lobes, modern processors contain multiple chips, called chiplets, rather than a single “monolithic” chip. 

Due to the limitations of silicon, semiconductor advancement slowed in 2010, and Moore’s law is expected to be obsolete by 2025. This has led semiconductor manufacturers to look at materials like gallium nitride in a bid to replace silicon entirely.  As it becomes harder to squeeze more transistors onto a piece of silicon, yields are reduced as the limitations of silicon create more issues for manufacturers.

Chiplets are one solution to this issue. Semiconductor manufacturing is notoriously difficult, with processors traditionally manufactured on a single piece of silicon known as “monolithic” designs. Small defects lead to chips being downgraded and sold with fewer cores or even discarded entirely.  When a single chiplet is defective, it can be replaced with another, resulting in less waste than discarding or downgrading a much larger chip. This increases yields since chip manufacturers can place multiple chiplets into a single processor to make up the desired core count.