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Clockless Computing

Posted by michael on 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. Funny title by nkyad · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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    When the Slashcode Lameness Injector inserts a space for you.

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  4. Oh great! by Mupp252 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    [Sarcasm]

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