Saturday July 31, 2004

[H]ardNews 5th Edition

New Technology From IBM

So as I was surfing around the tech sites today, I ran into this article at The Tech Report from the eetimes that talks about a new chip technology that allows the processor to literally reroute transistor pathways on the fly. Cool stuff for sure. Here is a not so helpful whitepaper from IBM on the subject.

eFuse reroutes chip logic, much the way highway traffic patterns can be altered by opening and closing new lanes," Bernard Meyerson, vice president and chief technologist of IBM Systems and Technology Group, said in a statement.