1. Unretouched photo of microchip with
a grain of Manhattan Beach sand.
©2016 Northrop Grumman Corporation
Northrop Grumman has been an anchor for the Los Angeles tech community for
decades and continues to innovate and collaborate across our company and the county.
That spirit helped us pioneer the fabrication of high-performance silicon chips at our
Manhattan Beach facility. Now we’ve pushed the technology further using Indium Phosphide to
build the world’s fastest microchip, operating at one-trillion cycles per second. That’s 500 times
higher frequency than current cellphones. And while this chip isn’t made from sand, it’s even
smaller than a grain of it.
THE SECRET OF SILICON BEACH?
WE CAN PUT OUR FINGER ON IT.
www.northropgrumman.com
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