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The State of Multi-Die: Insights and Customer Requirements

EE Times Current · 7 Nov 2025 · 20m

What this episode covers

Shaker Kapur, Executive Director of Productline Management for the Synopsys EDA Group, discusses the industry shift toward multi-die design driven by the strategic collaboration between OpenAI and AMD. He explains how this partnership, involving up to 6 gigawatts of AMD Instinct GPUs, highlights the necessity of co-optimizing hardware and software to meet exploding AI compute demands. Kapur details how Synopsys addresses these challenges through its 3DIC Capital platform, which unifies multi-die architecture exploration and system-level analysis to enable scalable, power-efficient data center architectures.

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large enterprises

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Companies
Synopsys, OpenAI, AMD
Products
MI 450 series, 3DIC Capital, Answers

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