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["Randall M" <randallm () fidmail com>]

Oh boy....check the last sentence:
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brunascle writes "Researchers have devised a new way to patch hardware. By
treating a computer chip more like software than hardware, Josep Torrellas,
a computer science professor from the University of Illinois at Urbana
Champaign, believes we will be able to fix defective hardware by a applying
a patch, similar to the way defective software is handled. His system,
dubbed Phoenix, consists of a standard semiconductor device called a field
programmable gate array (FPGA). Although generally slower than their
application-specific integrated circuit counterparts, FPGAs have the
advantage of being able to be modified post-production. Defects found on a
Phoenix-enabled chip could be resolved by downloading a patch and applying
it to the hardware. Torrellas believes this would give chips a shorter time
to market, saying "If they know that they could fix the problems later on,
they could beat the competition to market.""
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Snif. Snif, I smell trouble.






Thank You
Randall M

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