BritChips podcast: Chipletti's Big Stack

How do you squeeze a quart into a pint pot?

This is one of the fundamental problems facing semiconductor designers when trying to squeeze more circuits onto a chip.

It's a particular challenge for processor chip designers because they need to locate high-speed cache memory circuits very close to the logic circuits.

And the more powerful and faster the processor, the more cache you need. So space on the chip can really become a problem.

Catriona Wright and Kauser Johar are the founders of Chipletti, one of the UK semiconductor startups selected for the third cohort of the Government-sponsored ChipStartUK programme, managed by incubator Silicon Catalyst.UK.

Chipletti is developing a new way to stack memory chips on top of core logic chips, with the potential to improve performance without increasing chip area or power consumption.

In this BritChips podcast, Catriona and Kauser explain why they left great jobs at a high profile UK quantum computing startup to build their own semiconductor business from square one.

And it's not just about the technology. You'll also hear about the challenges involved in filing patents to protect their IP, and how they sought funding from angel investors to help launch the startup.

There's much here for anyone in the semiconductor startup scene to learn from Catriona’s and Kauser’s hard graft.

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