Meetkai creates a digital twin of sprawling $2B Silicon Box chip packaging factory

11.08.2023 - 16:29 / venturebeat.com

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The metaverse, digital twins, conversational AI and semiconductor chip packaging are all very different businesses. But they’re all under the same roof in the growing tech business group owned by billionaires Weili Dai and Sehat Sutardja.

And so it was a rare crossover when two of the businesses came together recently. Meetkai — which is pioneering tech in the metaverse and conversational AI — created a digital twin of the planned $2 billion Silicon Box chip packaging factory coming soon to Singapore.

The Silicon Box packaging factory is aimed at innovations in chiplets, or modules for chips that can be patched together to make “super chips,” which are connected together with speciaty packaging technology that Silicon Box will make. James Kaplan, CEO of Meetkai, said in an interview with GamesBeat it was helpful for training purposes to design the factory using the company’s metaverse tools to visualize what the final factory will look like.

Digital twins are like the industrial version of the metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds first envisioned by author Neal Stephenson in the 1992 novel Snow Crash. Enterprises create digital twins of their factories so they can see what the factories will look like before they’re built. The digital twins help to perfect the designs. And sensors on the real factories can feed data back to the digital twins to improve the overall design. While MeetKai started with conversational AI and then tried the consumer metaverse, now it is seeing opportunities in digital twins.

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Silicon Box recently celebrated the private grand opening of its physical 800,000 square-feet facility in Tampines, Singapore, while simultaneously introducing MeetKai’s digital replica in the metaverse. By leveraging the power of advanced AI and metaverse technologies, MeetKai has created a virtual replica of Silicon Box’s new facility, offering opportunities for business growth and talent development.

“Using advanced AI-powered and metaverse technologies, we are able to build virtual replicas of any physical setting valuable to businesses,” said Kaplan. “Including professional training centers, orientation tours, and live creative collaboration platforms at fractions of the cost and time that were previously thought possible.”

The factory will be home to thousands of jobs in the future, and the Meetkai digital twin