Philips, ARM Collaborate On Asynchronous CPU

Sean D. Solle writes "While not an actual off-the-shelf chip, Philips and ARM have announced a clockless ARM core using what they call "Handshake Technology." Read on for more about just what that means; according to this article, the asynchronous ARM chip has yet to be developed, but the same Philips subsidiary has applied similar technology to other microprocessors.

Sean D. Solle continues "Back in the early 1990's there was a lot of excitement (well, Acorn users got excited) about Prof. Steve Furber's asynchronous ARM research project, "Amulet". The idea is to let the CPU's component blocks run at their own rate, synchronising with each other only when needed. Like a normal RISC processor, one instruction typically takes one clock cycle; but in a clockless ARM, a cycle can take less time for different classes of instructions.

For example, a MOV instruction could finish before (and hence consume less power than) an ADD, even though they both execute in a single cycle. As well as energy-efficiency, running at effectively random frequencies reduces a chip's RFI emissions - handy if it's living in a cellphone or other wireless device."

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All dialects are correct

[Anonymous Coward]

This kind of cultural relativism cannot be acceptable in a public forum where we must all share a common language in order to communicate.

1337 5p34k ought not be accepted, if the majority of the speakers prefer the Queen's English. A lax attitude towards language leads to a splitting of dialects which does not usually improve the core language. We ought to be critical of dialects like BAE or Creole which turn the original language into a hodge podge of conflicting rules and haphazard constructions. But we should not be so critical as to bar it outright, only so much as to say, "this isn't right. There are better ways to express yourself."

So we come to a place where you think your (incorrect) dialect ought to be ranked equal to my (correct) dialect. I defer to logic itself to decide the greater dialect.

Lemma: An 'is' sentence must be reversible.

This holds for all 'is' conjugations.

Intel is a computer company.
*reversed*
A computer is Intel.

Note that the meaning of the sentence is not lost even through the reversion.

However, if we use your construct:

Intel are a computer company.
*reversed*
A computer company are Intel.

The reversed sentence makes no sense as the conjugation of the verb is clearly incorrect.

Therefore your dialect is logically inferior to mine. I admonish you to correct it in future use.

Re:A plea from down under

[Anonymous Coward]

Fuck you Nazi