Clockless Computing

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Posted by michael on Wednesday July 17, 2002 @06:50AM from the beat-of-a-different-drummer dept.

ender81b writes "Scientific American is carrying a nice article on asynchronous chips. In general, the article advocates that eventually all computer systems will have to move to an asynchronous design. The article focuses on Sun's efforts but gives a nice overview of the general concept of asynchronous chip design." We had another story about this last year.

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1 Million reward by nick-less · 2002-07-17 06:52 · Score: 5, Funny

for the first guy who overclock's it ;-)
1. Re:1 Million reward by sketchkid · 2002-07-17 06:54 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  larry ellison? is that you? :)
  
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2. Re:1 Million reward by Midnight+Thunder · 2002-07-17 07:17 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Intel marketing wouldn't like clockless chips as it would cause them massive headaches in the Mhz FUD. For once real world performance comparisons would have to matter.
  
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clockless computing? by gyratedotorg · 2002-07-17 06:59 · Score: 4, Funny

they can't take away the clock. how will i know what time it is?

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1. Re:clockless computing? by Citizen+of+Earth · 2002-07-17 07:35 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  they can't take away the clock. how will i know what time it is?
  
  Why is it that a $5 watch can keep perfect time but a $10,000 computer cannot?
Thisisahorribleidea... by zulux · 2002-07-17 07:11 · Score: 5, Funny

withoutaclocksignal,howcanyoutellwhenoneinstructio nstopsandanotherbegins?

(kidding)

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Re:Return of the 68000? by isorox · 2002-07-17 07:16 · Score: 4, Funny

Wasn't the 68000 asynchronous?

No, it was so slow it just seemed that way.
Re:The Amiga Zorro Bus was Asyncronous by Joel+Ironstone · 2002-07-17 07:16 · Score: 5, Funny

I thought the clock on the zorro was just masked.
Re:Intel will be pissed by isorox · 2002-07-17 07:20 · Score: 5, Funny
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