IEEE Spectrum Article: DARPA Plans A Major Remake Of U.S. Electronics

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is launching a huge expansion of its Electronics Resurgence Initiative, boosting the program to US $1.5 billion over five years.
DARPA’s ERI director Bill Chappell spoke to IEEE Spectrum ahead of the conference about the initiative’s aims and potential impacts.
…The emerging example is the RISC-V community, which we sponsored over the last decade. That’s maturing into something that’s interesting, but that’s just one example of what could be contributed to an open source pool of capabilities.
Ultimately, the parallel is to the software community. The hardware community really hasn’t figured out that ethos of sharing. We’re trying to pull some of that excitement and methodology into hardware design.
 
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