Stretch Announces Chip That Rewires Itself On The Fly 311
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."
Beware! (Score:5, Funny)
Sure it will.... (Score:5, Funny)
Whoa.. (Score:5, Funny)
Let's not do this one.
One word . . . (Score:3, Funny)
So, do they have Chippy? (Score:5, Funny)
Anything more? (Score:5, Funny)
Hmmmm... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:virus hitting the hardware (Score:2, Funny)
Uh, no.
Finally (Score:2, Funny)
damn!! (Score:2, Funny)
errmm... (Score:2, Funny)
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...
Re:Cue Skynet jokes (Score:5, Funny)
Sooooo this T800 model Terminator walks into a bar with a poodle under on arm and a basketball under the other...
Insightful?! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hmmmm... (Score:5, Funny)
Ahh - that's easy. You should have routed the ion core voltages through a phase discriminator; would have cleared that right up.
I think they must have shunted the positrons through the floating point pathways
No, that would have caused a cascade failure in the deflector array.
Yes, but... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:virus hitting the hardware (Score:3, Funny)
10,000,000 Windows machines can't be wrong!
Re:Ok froggy. (Score:2, Funny)
It means, well, it means... Uh, actually, I don't know quite how to describe it.