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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. Intel will be pissed by JimE+Griff · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How will they market stuff now? They might hve to thing of real architecture solutions! Woe is them.

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  2. How will marketing types hype the processors... by wtoconnor · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How will marketing types hype the processors without a my clock is bigger than your clock numbering system? People won't know what to buy.

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