October 2001
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.
By Claire Tristram
"We're replacing dictatorship with anarchy!" Karl Fant tells me emphatically. Ponytailed and animated, the founder and chief technical officer of Theseus Logic fills the whiteboard with sweeping illustrative examples, kneeling down to use every bit of available writing space. He is in his socks. "Eventually every chip will be designed this way," he declares. "It's inevitable!"
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