India, April 8 -- CEA-Leti, a world-leading micro and nanotechnologies research institute, and CEA-List, a specialist in smart digital systems, have announced a strategic collaboration with Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (PSMC).

The collaboration will leverage CEA-List's RISC-V design expertise and CEA-Leti's silicon photonics expertise to introduce high-bandwidth communication and high-efficiency computing technologies into PSMC's established 3D stacking and interposer platforms to deliver solutions for next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) systems.

The semiconductor industry faces mounting challenges, including the physical limits of traditional copper interconnects, increasingly stringent power budgets, and the ur...