Creating Indestructible Self-Healing Circuits

[Michael]

Creating indestructible self-healing circuits

In perhaps the most dramatic of their experiments, the team destroyed various parts of their chips by zapping them multiple times with a high-power laser, and then observed as the chips automatically developed a work-around in less than a second. "It was incredible the first time the system kicked in and healed itself. It felt like we were witnessing the next step in the evolution of integrated circuits," says Ali Hajimiri, the Thomas G. Myers Professor of Electrical Engineering at Caltech. "We had literally just blasted half the amplifier and vaporized many of its components, such as transistors, and it was able to recover to nearly its ideal performance."

Very cool! That kind of equipment would come in handy in space.

 

[Shemjaza]

Computers that can grow and heal?
And that was where the AI revolution started.

But in all seriousness, this is a fantastic development. (Sure in space... but I'd like one in my PC at home!)

 

[Strathos]

Computers that can grow and heal?
And that was where the AI revolution started.

Was the first thing I thought of