Intel back peddles on breaking chips theory
Tom Sanders writes on vnunet.com:
Intel has retracted a statement by one of its researchers who said that chips will become more unreliable as Moore's Law advances.
Intel researcher Padma Apparao made the statement in an interview with vnunet.com last week at an open day for Intel Research, and used similar wordings in a whitepaper that the company published last year.
"There isn’t a Moore's law tie in on this," John Casey, a spokesman for Intel's Technology Leadership Group, told vnunet.com.
Apparao's research seeks to create an error analysis technology for server processors that is embedded in the firmware of a processor. The tool logs the errors that are caught by the error correction part of a chip and analyses these mistakes. The analysis could create an early warning that a chip is starting to break down, giving the IT organisation a chance to swap out the unit and increase server uptime.
posted by Fergie @ 6/15/2005 04:34:00 PM
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