{"id":149230,"date":"2026-04-07T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149230"},"modified":"2026-04-07T02:05:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:05:00","slug":"china-cuts-cost-of-military-grade-infrared-chips-to-as-little-as-a-few-dozen-usd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149230","title":{"rendered":"China cuts cost of military-grade infrared chips to as little as a few dozen USD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA research team at a Chinese university has developed a new way to make high-end infrared chips that could slash their cost dramatically and improve the performance of smartphone cameras and self-driving cars.<br \/>\nThe key breakthrough was finding a way to make the chips using conventional manufacturing techniques, rather than the exotic, costly materials that were relied on before.<br \/>\nMass production is set to begin by the end of the year, according to a press release from Xidian University.<br \/>\nThe chips&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3349161\/china-cuts-cost-military-grade-infrared-chips-little-about-us10?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA research team at a Chinese university has developed a new way to make high-end infrared chips that could slash their cost dramatically and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149230"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}