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DARPA Chief: Specialized Computing Architectures Needed as Moore’s Law Winds Down

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014

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As most defense technologies are shifting to an open systems architecture, the director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) said computers and microprocessors may only become more advanced if they switch to specialized architectures. Arati Prabhakar, who launched DARPA’s Microelectronics Technology Office and spent years in Silicon Valley before taking over as DARPA’s director in 2012, said that for decades computing power has been driven by Moore’s Law: the idea that the number of transistors in a dense…

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