China’s new ultra-fast chip could double the pace of electronic warfare: research team
- ‘Groundbreaking’ chip technology behind analogue-to-digital converter could give military a critical edge in real combat, research team says
Chinese scientists have developed what could be the fastest analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) for military use.
The device can reduce the time delay of electronic warfare receivers from nanoseconds to picoseconds – or one-trillionth of a second – researchers behind the development said.
The chip technology would make radar signal detection and responses 91.46 per cent faster, nearly doubling the speed of combat to give the Chinese military a critical edge, according to the team from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC).
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In electronic warfare, military forces must first convert detected electromagnetic waves, which are analogue signals, into a digital format composed of zeros and ones.
