American fighters will be equipped with a new generation of chips, making them much smarter
The multi-chip package will support the operation of ground, marine and onboard sensors, increasing their performance and instantly transmitting the data they collect.
Raytheon and AMD are working on a device called a “multi-chip package” for a new generation of fighter jets. Its main task is to convert radio frequency energy into digital information, transmits Interesting engineering.
Raytheon has been awarded a $20 million contract to develop a multi-chip package that will support ground, maritime and airborne sensors. The company will have to create a compact microelectronics module from the latest commercial processors. AMD, which is also involved in this project, will have to deal with chip packaging.
The first-of-its-kind multi-chip package is expected to have a high bandwidth for high-speed data transmission, which will positively affect the performance of the sensor system, ensure low power consumption and reduce weight. The device will also enable each individual chip set to achieve maximum performance while maintaining cost-effectiveness.
Chips from various commercial partner companies will be developed to meet the requirements of Raytheon’s sensor systems. They will also be integrated into an intermediate converter designed and manufactured by Raytheon using 3D Universal Packaging, or so-called 3D chip packaging (3D packaging is a method of vertically placing transistors on a silicon wafer, which significantly speeds up data processing and increases the energy efficiency of the chip as a whole – ed.
The multi-chip package will be tested at the National Security Technology Accelerator at the U.S. Navy’s Surface Warfare Center in Indiana. Given that Raytheon is a division of RTX (the largest aerospace and defense company, a leading provider of offensive and defensive solutions), which develops “intelligent” weapons, offensive and defensive cybersecurity, interceptors and all types of air and missile defense, journalists assumed that the first combat vehicles to receive the new device would be fighters.
