News U.S. DARPA responds to China's gallium export controls: awards Raytheon three-year contract to develop new types of transistors

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Raytheon to develop diamond and aluminum nitride semiconductors in response to China's gallium export controls.

U.S. DARPA responds to China's gallium export controls: awards Raytheon three-year contract to develop new types of transistors : Read more

 

[gg83]

Raytheon is an interesting company. The name alone sounds like a future dystopian corporation. I bet it makes a lot of sense for a military contractor to make top secret chips. They have all the security protocols in place already. Would a foundry like GF or IF produce the chips for them? Or would Raytheon make them from scratch maybe.

 

[bit_user]

I bet it makes a lot of sense for a military contractor to make top secret chips. They have all the security protocols in place already.

The article gives other justifications for why they won the contracts.

Furthermore, not all DARPA-funded research is secret. You can find lots of research papers published in public journals and on arXiv.org which cite DARPA funding.

 

[evdjj3j]

I guess diamond sounds a lot sexier than carbon.

 

[bit_user]

I guess diamond sounds a lot sexier than carbon.

Diamond is a specific configuration of carbon atoms. If they're arranged in such a crystal lattice, it's diamond. If they're not, it's something else.

Graphene and graphite are also "just" arrangements of carbon atoms, as are carbon nanotubes.