U.S. Focuses on Invigorating ‘Chiplets’ to Stay Cutting-Edge in Tech

U.S. Focuses on Invigorating ‘Chiplets’ to Stay Cutting-Edge in Tech Chiplets, a way to design chips for higher performance, has become a key prong of U.S. industrial policy. But pushing for more of this activity domestically is challenging. “Packaging is where the action is going to be,” said Subramanian Iyer, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, who helped pioneer the chiplet concept. “It’s happening because there is actually no other way.”