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Engineers Build "Self-Healing" Chips Capable of Repairing Themselves

Posted by samzenpus on from the electronics-heal-thyself dept.

hypnosec writes "A Team of researchers and engineers at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has developed 'self-healing' chips (PDF) that can heal themselves within a few microseconds. The team tested their work by damaging amplifiers in several places using high-powered lasers. In less than a second the chips were able to develop work-arounds thereby healing themselves."

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  1. Re:another non-story by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Man, it makes me sick that people haven't taken the obvious step of giving the intricate metal layers and zones of dopant concentration on a silicon wafer the same modularity as 3.5 inch HDDs with hot-swap connectors... Scientists are so lazy.

    Heck, why do we get worked up about integrated circuits at all? I saw Bell Labs demonstrate the same concept with discrete transistors before 1950, and they were basically just ripping off vacuum tubes...

  2. Re:another non-story by bluefoxlucid · · Score: 4, Funny

    RAID is only 15 years old? It came about in like 1998?

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