Deconstructionite

Deconstructionites are pieces of technology from the Dreamwave portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

The deconstructionites were created by the United States government by reverse-engineering Transformers technology. They "eat" processing power from computers, sapping the computers' strength and ultimately rendering them inert. They are highly effective against 1980's desktop computers, but...less effective against Transformers, due to the latter's superior systems.

Fiction

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

The Transformers Trilogy

When the President of the United States plotted against the Transformers, his secret weapon was the newly minted deconstructionites. In theory, the tiny computer chips were to suck out all the power from the Cybertronians, making them easy to capture and study. The military unleashed thousands of the deconstructionites on the Autobots and Decepticons, but they were less than successful. Several Transformers eventually fell off-line, especially the less-developed ones like Ravage and Laserbeak, but ultimately, the effect was too slow to give the military the edge they expected. In the aftermath, the President learned his top aides had based their brilliant estimates on time trials that tested the deconstructionites on outdated old computers. Apparently, Transformers are a little more advanced than that. Fusion