Term tag: AI Chips

Advanced Packaging

CoWoS, chiplets and 3D stacking — how compute dies and memory become one accelerator, and the assembly step that has actually gated AI chip supply.

Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)

A chip wired for one job. Why Google builds TPUs and bitcoin abandoned GPUs — the volume-and-time bet behind custom silicon, with the break-even maths.

EUV Lithography

The machines that print advanced chips with 13.5 nm light — how they work, why only one company makes them, and what that chokepoint means.

Matrix Multiplication (GEMM)

The one operation that consumes most of an AI model's compute — and the reason AI chips are built the way they are, from tensor cores to systolic arrays.

Neural Processing Unit (NPU)

An NPU is a fixed-function matrix engine inside a phone or laptop chip that runs AI models at a few watts — and why TOPS is the wrong number to…

Semiconductor Manufacturing

How an AI chip is actually made — wafers, process nodes, yield and the foundry model — and why supply cannot simply respond to a spike in demand.

Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)

A TPU is Google's custom ASIC for the matrix multiplications in neural networks: a systolic array that reuses each value instead of refetching it.