Reconfiguring computer chips in development
A tantalizing article on BusinessWeek today explores the efforts of two Texas researchers — Douglas C. Burger and Stephen W. Keckler — to develop a computer chip that can compute a trillion calculations per second. Even more amazing, is the the fact that the chip can reconfigure itself on-the-fly. “With this technology, a future Macintosh from Apple Computer might rejigger the circuitry on its PowerPC chip and then run software written for Intel ‘s microprocessors,” explains the report.
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