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From: Symon on 8 Apr 2008 09:32
Dear All, Austin in particular,
I saw this and thought of you!
Cheers, Syms.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7335322.stm


From: austin on 9 Apr 2008 13:42
Symon,

I read the patent(s).

I am amazed at how useless this is: use of a MEMS to detect the charge
cloud....

OK, so there went a neutron.

OK.

Did it upset one of my 512K bits in my cache?

Did it upset a register?

.....

So, they have a number of patents for this, and it is interesting (as a
physics experiment), but then, so is:

http://www.google.com/patents?id=bQd-AAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4

or

http://www.google.com/patents?id=uOs2AAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4

Interesting science, bad PR!

A much better patent to crow about:

http://www.google.com/patents?id=whEPAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4&dq=intel+soft+error+correction+logic+and+memory


Austin
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