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Stretch Announces Chip That Rewires Itself On The Fly
tigre writes "CNET News reports on a chip startup call Stretch which produces the S5000, a RISC processor with electronically programmable hardware so that it can add to its instruction set as it deems necessary. Thus it can re-configure itself to behave like a DSP, or a (digital) ASIC, and perform the equivalent of hundreds of instructions in one cycle. Great way to bridge the gap between general-purpose computing and ASICs."
Give these damn chips awhile to evolve and you'll have borg nanoprobes... Beware the nanoprobes!!
And it will ship with a free copy of Duke Nukem Forever, right?
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Just imagine a Beowulf Clu...oh. Skynet. Right.
Let's not do this one.
cool. -One step closer to Judgement Day
"I see that you are (insert processor mumbojumbo.) Would you like me to reconfigure my instruction sets?"
Is this the only technology they managed to salvage from the android's severed hand? Any interesting gears and motors at all?
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
I tried to do something like this once, but I kept running into the problem of differential voltages in the pulse-modulated ion core. I think they must have shunted the positrons through the floating point pathways, thus creating an artificial singularity in which the laws of EE no longer apply.
Can you imagine the virus you could write if you could change the instruction set of the cpu?
Uh, no.
I can tell my computer to go fuck itself and it will.
I like to welcome our new reprogrammed overlords...
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being code to being "on the chip" and that's sure to speed up the experienced speed.
first, where exactly is code run, if it isn't 'on a chip', and second, what? speed up the experienced speed?
you mean, as opposed to something like 'pretended speed', which is what i imagine you were using to measure your rapid desire to let your undoubtedly 'speedy' fingers get through your slashdot post without thinking
'experienced speed' indeed...
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Cue Skynet jokes...GO!
Sooooo this T800 model Terminator walks into a bar with a poodle under on arm and a basketball under the other...
Wow! The virus could execute arbitrary code! Just like if it could choose which of the existing instructions were executed by another processor. The core part of your virus could run faster, maybe in just one clock cycle!
Can it hammer a six inch spike into a 2x4 with it's penis?
> You could make the machine unreliable, but that wouldn't make for an effective virus distributing machine.
10,000,000 Windows machines can't be wrong!
Je ne se quoi?
It means, well, it means... Uh, actually, I don't know quite how to describe it.