Cloud-based chip design for national security achieves key milestones
Continued US leadership in emerging technology requires a sustainable supply of advanced chips to power innovation from artificial intelligence to quantum computing. The CHIPS and Science Act, passed last year, aims to boost domestic research and manufacturing capacity for critical microelectronics. To support this ambitious effort, the US Department of Defense (DoD) launched the Rapid Assured Microelectronics Prototypes (RAMP) using the Advanced Commercial Capabilities program, an effort to accelerate the secure, sustainable development of microelectronics for defense technologies.
As part of this effort, three new state-of-the-art chips were developed using the RAMP secure design capability developed by Microsoft within the…