Saturday, September 8, 2012

EFUSE- a new revolution




The first thing that fascinates me after watching all those terminator movie was ; the chip-controlled protagonist and his opponent both having the capabilities of recovering from damages of the extreme kind inflicted by each other, on their own?

So now that technology is not very far away from us, Global IT giant IBM scored a coup of sorts long ago, when it revealed eFUSE, a breakthrough technology that enables harmed computer chips to heal themselves without human involvement.

As wiki says, “eFUSE is a technology invented by IBM which allows for the dynamic real-time reprogramming of computer chips.”

On 31st July, this year IBM got the patent for, “Three dimensional vertical E-fuse structures and methods of manufacturing the same.”


The concept of self-healing, however, does not wholly belong to it. Artificial intelligence based systems have always been conceptualized to be having learning-by experience and self-maintenance capabilities. Similarly, computers used in satellites are known to have some such competence, since they need to adjust and readjust their systems occasionally to suit the environment they operate within. Even ordinary office users of Microsoft Internet Explorer must have noticed that the Browser, post its version 5.0, had the capability of repairing itself in the event of its crucial files getting corrupted. Computers managed by computers themselves are perhaps going to be the natural culmination of the ongoing digital revolution.


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