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Clockless Chips

Posted by Hemos on from the really-think-different dept.

iarkin writes "TechReview is running a very interesting article about clockless chips. Clockless, or asynchronous, chips work very much faster and consume less power than their synchronous equivalents (Intel hade some experiments on these chips back in -97, the results showed that the asynchronous chips were three times faster and consumed only half the power)."

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  1. I'll say it first by jeffy124 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    can you imagine a beowulf cluster of those!

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  2. This clockless thing must be caching on fast.. by k98sven · · Score: 4, Redundant

    .. otherwise people would've noticed this has been
    posted before (sept 15)

  3. Is there an echo in here? by ahem · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Seems like there was a story about this earlier...

    Hmm.

    Oh! Here it is:

    Clockless Computing: The State Of The Art by timothy with 140 comments on 01-09-15 6:26

    Love,

    Ahem.

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  4. How do we know they're faster... by Jefe+(Not+Satanic) · · Score: 1, Redundant

    If there are no numbers to prove it?

  5. Oh please by Dirtside · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Slashdot is SO behind. Kuro5hin had a story about this back in -96, right after the tests were done! Leave it to /. to wait 2,098 years to post a story. Sheesh.

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  6. Re:Old idea by Yobgod+Ababua · · Score: 4, Redundant

    It's not even that they "aren't good enough", it's more a matter of inertia.

    Currently all the training, design tools, verification tools, etc, are geared towards solving the particular problems that come up through synchronous design. Asynchronous design avoids some of those problems completely, but has others of it's own.

    Major companies are unwilling to trade a known set of problems for an unknown set.

    When some of the small start-ups that are currently pursuing asynchronous chips release product and show that those problems can be practically and regularly solved then the world will sit up and take notice, but until then we're just another 'technological curiosity'.