Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments
typodupeerror delete not in
  • Preferences

+-   Intel wants cosmic ray detectors on every chip on Friday March 07 2008, @01:29PM holy_calamity

Submitted by holy_calamity on Friday March 07 2008, @01:29PM
hardhack
holy_calamity writes "Intel has been awarded a patent for building cosmic ray detectors into chips, to guard against soft errors where a high energy particle from space changes a value in a circuit. It's a problem that largely only affects RAM. As component sizes shrink futher, "this problem is projected to become a major limiter of computer reliability in the next decade", says the patent. Intel's solution is to build in a detector that responds to cosmic errors by repeating the latest operation, reloading previous instructions, or rolling back to a previous state. Full patent."
submission
This discussion was created for logged-in users only, but now has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

Intel wants cosmic ray detectors on every chip 0 Comments More /

 Full
 Abbreviated
 Hidden
More
Loading... please wait.
Search
You recoil from the crude; you tend naturally toward the exquisite.

All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners. Comments are owned by the Poster. The Rest © 1997-2010 Geeknet, Inc.