Chiplets and Automotive Computing – Interview with Bart Placklé, Imec

Chiplet architectures are redefining the automotive industry. Imec’s Bart Placklé explains how modular design, interoperability, and ecosystem collaboration can help Europe regain leadership in high-performance vehicle computing.

By Benjamin Müller, Automotive Digital Transformation | November 4, 2025

With more than two decades of experience in automotive and semiconductor technology, Bart Placklé has shaped some of the most fundamental transformations in the industry – from infotainment consolidation and domain controller evolution to Intel’s early autonomous mobility programs. As Vice President Automotive at Imec, he now leads efforts to advance chiplet integration as a foundation for next-generation high-performance automotive computing.

At the Automotive Computing Conference 2025, Placklé will speak about the structural and economic limits of traditional SoC design and why open, interoperable chiplet ecosystems are the key to scalable, sovereign computing in Europe. In the run-up to the conference, we spoke with him about the technological and structural shifts driving the future of automotive computing.

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