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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday July 25 2017, @08:24AM   Printer-friendly
from the origami-cpu dept.

https://www.hpcwire.com/2017/07/24/darpa-continues-investment-post-moores-technologies/

The U.S. military long ago ceded dominance in electronics innovation to Silicon Valley, the DoD-backed powerhouse that has driven microelectronic generation for decades. With Moore's Law clearly running out of steam, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is attempting to reinvigorate and leverage a vibrant domestic chip sector with a $200 million initiative designed among other things to push the boundaries of chip architectures like GPUs.

DARPA recently announced that its Electronics Resurgence Initiative seeks to move beyond Moore's Law chip scaling. Among the new fronts to be opened by the defense agency are extending GPU frameworks that underlie machine-learning tools to develop "reconfigurable physical structures that adjust to the needs of the software they support."

[...] The DARPA effort also attempts to lay the groundwork for a post Moore's Law era where, according to the agency, research will focus on "integrating different semiconductor materials on individual chips, 'sticky logic' devices that combine processing and memory functions and vertical rather than only planar integration of microsystem components."

Also at NextBigFuture.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 26 2017, @06:53AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 26 2017, @06:53AM (#544518)

    Our existing known tech is still primitive in many ways. The human brain uses about 20W.

    Crows are fairly smart too and their brains use a lot less power.

    Houseflies can navigate, find "fuel", reproduce etc.

    Personally I think we should figure out more about how single celled creatures think. Thinking does not require brains: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/04/30/this-weird-slimy-single-cell-organism-can-learn-without-a-brain/ [washingtonpost.com]

    Anyone who believes that thinking requires brains does not belong in fields like AI.