An official announced that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected a number of industry and academic teams to carry out the work of six projects under its profitable e-Rejuvenation Program. The program will receive more than $1.5 billion in five years.
The program, announced in 2017, is designed to drive innovation in the electronics industry. Pentagon officials say electronic technology supports some of the most important areas of expertise in the Department of Defense, including quantum computing, artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, space and biotechnology.
Bill Chapel, director of the Microsystems Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, said the effort coincided with soaring business costs in the industry, as foreign countries were investing more.
▲ US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Three days before the agency and its industry and academia partners held an important meeting called the 'Electronic Renaissance Plan Summit' in San Francisco, Chapel told reporters in a conference call: 'We are now in this very noteworthy time Point, we will focus more on the basic technology of electronics and semiconductors.'
Chapel said that the meeting was held from July 22nd to 24th, with more than 950 participants. Participants will discuss the future of electronic technology, especially Moore's Law. This theory calls the ability of integrated circuits every 18 to 24 It will double in a month.
He said: 'The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has long provided funding for research in this area. We have greatly improved our capabilities.'
The e-Revitalization program consists of six projects under three pillars: structure, design, and materials and integration.
During the conference, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced that it has selected a number of companies and universities to participate in the e-renaissance program.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's investment in microelectronics is at a time when competition between the US and China has become more intense. In the 2018 defense strategy, the Pentagon called Beijing one of its future two competitors. China has made an effort to increase its investment in microelectronics technology and allocate $150 billion to it.
▲ chip processing
China’s investment is particularly disturbing because the Pentagon fears that China may hide malicious applications or malicious code in the US military system using Chinese chips.
Chapel pointed out that a large part of China's funds are being invested in manufacturing facilities rather than trying to make technological advances.
He said: 'But it does highlight the need to ensure that we have new inventions across the country and other allies, and we will invent new methods because older methods are being replicated in their entirety. Now more important than ever. The point is that we have new inventions that are being done to ensure that semiconductor space really becomes a valuable thing.'