Spencer Chin, writing for EE Times posits that: IBM's eFuse technology portends adaptable chips.
I first wrote about these IBM Corp. 'self-configuring' chips on April 1, 2004.
Now Spencer Chin writes that IBM:
"...unveiled new chip technology on Friday (July 30) that it said is able to adjust its own functionality and perform trade-offs between performance and power consumption without human intervention.
The technology, called "eFuse," is said to combine software algorithms and microscopic electrical fuses to produce chips able to regulate and adapt to their own actions in response to changing conditions and system demands.
By employing the autonomic capability, the technology is expected to alter the way chips are designed, manufactured and integrated into electronic products, according to IBM.
"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."
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