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Stretch Announces Chip That Rewires Itself On The Fly

Posted by simoniker on from the self-reconfiguring-articles-next dept.

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."

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  1. OH boy, Transmeta Part II. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Je ne se quoi?

  2. Re:virus hitting the hardware by Tall_Rob · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Can you imagine the virus you could write if you could change the instruction set of the cpu?

    ObKhanQuote

    It would destroy such instructions in favor of its new matrix.

    /ObKhanQuote :-P

  3. ASICS ? by Qbertino · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I thougt they made sneakers.

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  4. skynet by enrico_suave · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    looks like we'll have skynet operational anytime now...

    e.

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