2021 BRN Discussion, page-27920

Why It’s Important: The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has recently sought to diversify its approach to securing advanced microprocessors by leveraging commercially available technologies developed by U.S. companies. Other than Intel, the majority of U.S.-based chip designers are fabless, which means they design and sell integrated circuits that are fabricated by contract manufacturers called foundries. Today, more than 80 percent of leading-edge manufacturing capacity is concentrated in Asia¹, leaving the DOD with limited onshore access to foundry technology capable of meeting the country’s long-term needs for secure microelectronics. The RAMP-C program was created to facilitate the use of a commercially viable onshore foundry ecosystem that will ensure DOD access to leading-edge technology, while allowing the defense industrial base to leverage the benefits of high-volume semiconductor manufacturing and design infrastructure of commercial partners like Intel.



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yep - these will be the foundries of choice due to secure logistic chain. Given BRN are licensing IP, and the military/aerospace has been highlighted as a target industry we are engaged with, it's only common sense that this secure foundry logistic chain is a destination for producing our neuromorphic IP.


its as common sense as putting edge processors on UAVs