Long gone are the days when the military could count on firms like TI to design, manufacture, and assemble cutting-edge analog and digital electronics all onshore. Today there’s simply no way to avoid buying some things from abroad—and buying many from Taiwan. So DARPA’s betting on technology to enable a “zero trust” approach to microelectronics: trust nothing and verify everything, via technologies like tiny sensors implanted on a chip that can detect efforts to modify it.
