Reprogrammable Chips Could Enable Instant Gadget Upgrades

"The new chips—made by a startup called Tabula—are a cheaper, more powerful competitor to an existing type of reprogrammable chip known as a field programmable gate array (FPGA)".This chip can be reconfigured to implement new designs, thus allowing device hardware to be upgraded. The technology needed to build stacked, 3-D chips is still restricted to research labs. Instead Teig found a way to make a chip with just one level behave as if it were eight different ones stacked up. Cycling between up to eight different layouts at up to 1.6 billion times per second.


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