Is there anything like ARPA's VLSI Project running today? That project has to have had one of the greatest cost:benefit ratios ever.
Chiplets: https://www.darpa.mil/program/common-heterogeneous-integrati...
PIPES - optical chip io : https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2020-03-16
Automated ML chip generation: https://www.darpa.mil/attachments/Real%20Time%20Machine%20Le...