GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly important for most defence capabilities.

Moving from digital to analogue computing has the potential to improve computing in terms of speed and/or energy-efficiency by several orders of magnitude (expectedly by a factor of at least thousands). Furthermore, it can benefit from the increasing versatility of artificial neural networks to address a variety of AI applications. In addition, it offers enhanced security by coding the information in a way that strongly limits information leaks, as this information is deeply intertwined with the processing hardware. In addition, this is an emerging technological domain within the field of processors where competition is relatively open and where there is an opportunity to build on European competencies.

The proposals must address research on new hardware architectures for AI that offer very significant gains in term of power consumption, processing speed and latency, as well as in terms of size, weight and cost. Any type of architecture deemed suitable to address the objectives may be investigated (e.g. magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ), memristors, in-memory computing, etc., possibly combined with other relevant hardware and software technologies in hybrid architectures).