27-28 August 2025
Suwon
12:15 – 12:35
Technologies in Edge AI: From AI Chip Design to Chiplets Integration
Edge Artificial Intelligence (Edge AI) has emerged as a transformative paradigm, enabling real-time data processing and decision-making at the edge of networks, close to data sources. As the demand for high-bandwidth and energy-efficient edge computing grows, innovations across the hardware stack—from chip design to chiplet integration—are becoming critical. Traditional SoC designs are increasingly constrained by power, thermal, and scaling limits. In response, designers are adopting heterogeneous integration strategies, leveraging specialized processing units such as NPUs (Neural Processing Units), TPUs (Tensor Processing Units), and DSPs (Digital Signal Processors) optimized for AI workloads. Chiplets enable greater scalability, flexibility, and reuse, significantly reducing design complexity and time-to-market for edge AI solutions. Here we share chip design tailored for Edge AI, highlights the opportunities and challenges associated with chiplet-based architectures, and discusses future directions in design methodologies, and interconnect. ITRI has complete 12” process line for 3D/2.5D and fan-out process including a 2.5 µm fine-pitch Cu/oxide hybrid bonding structure, 12” wafer-to-wafer hybrid bonding at a low temperature of 200°C without thermal compression, and some use cases demonstrated for IIoT application
Wei-Chung Lo, Ph.D
Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)
Dr. Lo received his Ph.D. from National Taiwan University and joined Industrial Technology Research Institute to work in advanced electronic packaging, such as WLP, 3D IC/3D stacking, fan-out, heterogeneous integration technology for more than 20 years, 85 papers and 40 patent granted. Currently, he also serves as TWG chair of IoT Chapter of IEEE Heterogenous Integration Roadmap(HIR) and chairman of International Microelectronics Assembly and Packaging Society (IMAPS)-Taiwan chapter.
Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)
Company Profile
ITRI is a world-leading applied technology research institute with more than 6,000 outstanding employees. Its mission is to drive industrial development, create economic value, and enhance social well-being through technology R&D. Founded in 1973, it pioneered in IC development and started to nurture new tech ventures and deliver its R&D results to industries. ITRI has set up and incubated companies such as TSMC, UMC, Taiwan Mask Corp., Epistar Corp., Mirle Automation.