https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/24/darpa-details-75-million-initiative-to-reinvent-chip-tech/ > The Defense Department’s research arm, DARPA, is throwing a event around its “Electronics Resurgence Initiative,” an effort to leapfrog existing chip tech by funding powerful but unproven new ideas percolating in the industry. It plans to spend up to $1.5 billion on this over the years, of which about $75 million was earmarked today for a handful of new partners. > The ERI was announced last year in relatively broad terms, and since then it has solicited proposals from universities and research labs all over the country, arriving at a handful that it has elected to fund.