A great news package, WT!
This technology article was particularly interesting:
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Originally posted by walktalker
It's Time for Clockless Chips
Megahertz, shmegahertz. A few iconoclasts are building computer chips that dispense with the traditional clock. But they face big barriers in bringing their idea into the mainstream. "We're replacing dictatorship with anarchy!" Karl Fant tells me emphatically. "Eventually every chip will be designed this way," he declares. "It's inevitable!" By throwing out the clock, the fundamental way that chips, since the dawn of the Computer Age, have organized and executed their work. Even those of us who know nothing about microprocessors know something about their clocks — Intel for years has used the clock speed of its microprocessors as a marketing tool, where faster is better.
http://www.techreview.com/magazine/oct01/tristram.asp
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Perhaps the most pressing problem with conventional microprocessors, though, is that you can only speed up the chip's clock so much before banging into some inconvenient physical realities. In today's one-gigahertz chips, electronic pulses signifying binary ones and zeroes can—just barely—make it across the chip within a single beat of the clock. But in the two-gigahertz chips expected to arrive in the next couple of years that will no longer be true. The role the clock plays now, synchronizing all the work on a chip, will begin to break down.
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