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In the future, nanobots will accept an over-the-air hardware upgrade and reassemble your CPU to a new configuration.

...inside your brain.

As long as you're paid up.

I divine that they're already talking about that in meetings about implanted chips, which they want to make mainstream.

Brain implant as a service.

You could probably get the free version with ads constantly showing up in your brain.

As cool as these things run, an over-the-air update that just lets it run a bit hotter could work surprisingly well, especially for devices with fans.

This evokes in me an image of a laptop built with fully reconfigurable hardware (something like an FPGA).

Imagine if you could actually download a faster processor :)

You can (and most likely already do) with microcode [0] :)

[0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16549/rocket-lake-redux-0x34-...

Yes but can we download more RAM?

You put your existing chip in the microwave to encode the upgrade electromagnetically

Finally, the successor to Apple Wave!

If Elon Musk ran Apple, that's the way it would work.