Chips with everything

Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 15:14 in Mathematics & Economics

(PhysOrg.com) -- While the technology to make computer chips smaller and cheaper progresses each year, the fundamental structure of the chip - the computer architecture - has remained the same for decades. This led Professor David May in the Department of Computer Science to think about what a computer chip should look like for the twenty-first century. Today, his technology has unified the hardware and software worlds into one environment, such that hardware is software.

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