One of the groups participating in this year’s Flash Memory Summit is the UCIe Consortium. The UCIe Consortium is a recently formed group responsible for the Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) standard. First announced in March, the UCIe consortium seeks to establish universal standards for connecting chiplets in future chip designs. This allows chip builders to combine chiplets from different companies.At the time of the announcement in March, the group was looking for additional members as it prepared to officially incorporate. For FMS, we provide a quick update on our progress.
First, the group was officially incorporated. While this is primarily a paperwork issue for the group, it remains an important step to properly establish itself as a formal consortium. Among other things, this allowed the group to set up working groups to develop future versions of the standard and to provide early Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection to its members.
But more important is the configuration of the integrated UCIe board. UCIe originally consisted of 10 members, which is the identity of many big players in the chip industry. The incorporated board then elected his two members who succumbed to peer pressure. NVIDIA and Alibaba.
NVIDIA has previously announced support for UCIe in future products (even though they are encouraging customers to use NVLink), so the addition to the board is not unexpected. Still, it is essentially the final major chip vendor on board, with UCIe support established across all the big players in the ecosystem. Meanwhile, Alibaba, like Meta and Google Cloud, is another hyperscaler joining the group, and will likely make the most of UCIe when developing chips for data centers and cloud computing services.
Overall, the group currently has up to 60 members in total, according to the consortium. Also in the product chiplet he is moving towards implementing UCIe 1.0 and is considering adding more through events such as FMS.
