Raytheon Develops World’s First Polymorphic Computer

March 22, 2007 | Source: Military Embedded Systems

The world’s first computers whose architecture can adopt different forms depending on their application have been developed by Raytheon Company.

Dubbed MONARCH (Morphable Networked Micro-Architecture) and developed to address the large data volume of sensor systems as well as their signal and data processing throughput requirements, it is the most adaptable processor ever built for the Department of Defense, reducing the number of processor types required. It performs as a single system on a chip, resulting in a significant reduction of the number of processors required for computing systems, and it performs in an array of chips for teraflop throughput.