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SiPearl, the company designing the high-performance, energy-efficient microprocessor for the European exascale supercomputer and Open-Silicon Research, the India based entity of OpenFive, a provider of custom silicon solutions with differentiated IP, announced a multi-year joint collaboration to enable expansive development of innovative High Performance Computing (HPC) applications.
Specifically, SiPearl is relying on Open-Silicon Research’s expertise in deep-submicron physical design implementation, advanced 2.5D packaging and global supply chain management to develop the highly integrated, high-performance 6nm system-on-a-chip (SoC) named RHEA.
SiPearl’s Rhea SoC is designed in a leading-edge 6nm process node and will be implemented by Open-Silicon Research and manufactured at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). OpenFive is a long-standing partner of TSMC through its Value Chain Aggregator (VCA) program. Applications using artificial intelligence (AI) such as autonomous driving, facial recognition, and genomics are generating vast amounts of data, and driving demand for new HPC systems with massive increases in compute performance and interconnect speeds. The Rhea 6nm SoC is purpose built for HPC applications and provides a powerful, highly scalable solution with tremendous improvements in memory bandwidth enabled by Open-Silicon Research’s High Bandwidth Memory (HBM2E) IP subsystem, die-to-die (D2D) interconnect, and HBM memory die into a single 2.5D advanced package.