Novatek Ventures into HPC with DDI Display Driver Chip, N4P Process SoC Tape-out

On October 20, 2023, it was reported that Novatek is an integrated circuit (IC) design company based in Taiwan, primarily producing display driver chips (DDI) and digital multimedia SoCs for mobile devices and consumer electronics.

According to reports from the Taiwanese media, “Commercial Times,” Novatek completed the first batch of wafer tape-out verification for a high-performance computing (HPC) SoC in September of this year, marking an important milestone for Novatek as it seeks opportunities in the data center, AI cloud services, and automotive computing markets.

The report indicates that Novatek leveraged the power of the Arm Total Design ecosystem for this HPC SoC, based on the Arm Neoverse CSS N2 computing subsystem, utilizing a chiplet architecture. It integrates external I/O with DDR5 and HBM3e memory controllers, PCIe 6.0 / CXL 2.0 interfaces, and a 224G SerDes link, all built on TSMC’s N4P advanced process and CoWoS advanced packaging.

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