Sun Microsystems is actively pursuing development of a CPU without a clock, based instead on asynchronous logic, according to a story in Monday's New York Times.
"The clock is the microelectronic crystal that beats at the heart of every microprocessor chip, orchestrating the synchronous dance of electrons that course through the hundreds of millions of wires and transistors of a modern computer," the Times' John Markoff writes, displaying his monumental literary pretensions, the likes of which are rarely encountered outside the world of overpriced restaurant menus, greeting-card 'poetry' and tourist brochures.
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