[John Jorsett]

Where is the decision mechanism?

See my reply #9. In the gate array chips, the human being who defines the chip connections via a high-level language like VHDL (for example) is the decision maker. Sounds like this new stuff is going to push that decision-making about internal connections down into the chip itself, no doubt with algorithms supplied by the designer. Very interesting idea, and I'll be watching to see how it develops.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks, i didn't realize you were into the technicalities of chip design.

I find it very amazing and they say they have it in production.

Ever since the IBM 3033 the IBM Main Frames have had attached processors that continually monitored special circuits and gates and the overall system and recorded major data. But that was not in the actual computer itself.