$40 Million In Backers, Together with Intel And Micron
It’s a bit early to sound the demise of TSMC, however it does seem like they may have some new competitors. Eliyan are providing an alternate interconnect expertise they’ve referred to as NuLink, to compete with TSMC’s CoWoS and Intel’s EMIB designs. The founders of Eliyan hope that their expertise shall be utilized in partnership with the prevailing processes, they don’t intend to attempt to unseat the 2 behemoths.
Eliyan’s CEO Ramin Farjadran, as soon as of Marvell Semiconductor, feels that the present interconnect designs are costly to make and gradual to supply; which isn’t flawed. NuLink is meant to be cheaper and faster to manufacture in addition to being comprised of supplies which can be simpler to supply than what TSMC and Intel presently use. It’s primarily based on a bunch-of-wires (BoW) design, akin to is discovered within the Open Compute Venture and any fab firm ought to be capable of undertake the design simply.
It’s a new tackle an current expertise, and is compliant with the Common Chiplet Interconnect Specific (UCIe) normal developed by Intel which ought to assist tempt firms to a minimum of contemplate attempting it out. Drop by The Register for extra particulars on the expertise and the individuals behind it.
