# DARPA Electronics Resurgence Initiative Summit **Entity class:** Microelectronics research-and-development summit **Organizer:** [[wiki/Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency|Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency]] **Aliases:** ERI Summit **As of:** 2026-09-23 ## Definition The **DARPA Electronics Resurgence Initiative Summit** convenes the government, commercial semiconductor industry, defense industrial base, and university researchers around national microelectronics research. DARPA launched the summit in 2018 as part of the Electronics Resurgence Initiative, a multi-year effort intended to advance electronics design, manufacturing, security, and performance. The event's technical scope includes three-dimensional heterogeneous integration, design automation, hardware-lifecycle security, information-processing density, energy efficiency, communications, and AI hardware capable of faster decisions at the edge. Neuromorphic and photonic approaches can appear within this wider microelectronics research landscape, but specific claims belong to the program or edition in which they were presented. ## Relationships - **organizer:** [[wiki/Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency|Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency]]. - **research program:** Electronics Resurgence Initiative and ERI 2.0. - **technical routes:** [[wiki/Neuromorphic Computing|Neuromorphic Computing]], [[wiki/Photonic Data Fabric|Photonic Data Fabric]], [[wiki/Hardware Security|Hardware Security]], and [[wiki/Edge Computing|Edge Computing]]. - **event ecosystem:** [[wiki/Intelligence and Defense Conferences|Intelligence and Defense Conferences]]. - **collection route:** [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [DARPA — first annual ERI Summit, 2018](https://www.darpa.mil/news/2018/first-electronics-resurgence-initiative-summit) - [DARPA — second annual ERI Summit, 2019](https://www.darpa.mil/news/2019/second-annual-eri-summit) - [DARPA — ERI and ERI 2.0](https://eri-summit.darpa.mil/what-is-eri) ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > "Accelerating innovation in artificial intelligence hardware to make decisions at the edge faster" > **— DARPA**, *accessed September 23, 2026, Electronics Resurgence Initiative — What Is ERI?* [[reminders/Information/AI Hardware Should Make Decisions at the Edge Faster by DARPA|AI Hardware Should Make Decisions at the Edge Faster by DARPA]] > "Overcoming security threats across the entire hardware lifecycle" > **— DARPA**, *accessed September 23, 2026, Electronics Resurgence Initiative — What Is ERI?* [[reminders/Cybernetics/Hardware Security Must Address the Entire Lifecycle by DARPA|Hardware Security Must Address the Entire Lifecycle by DARPA]]