Hence, this is why the framing of the information....seems a bit off.
Be careful. If you point out inconsistencies and ambiguities in BFL's announcements Josh will start rageflaming you. Spoken from experience.
Little I know about designing chips but wouldn't a real, and most effective Bitcoin chip be better done without a clock or clockless? Units waiting for Data could so automatically be suspended and resume work just in time when they are needed.
Face-palm......
I cannot think of any useful digital logic design that is "clock-less" (suspend/resume is in-fact a type of "clock")
As is the case for a number of manufacturers.... this is what happens when sales people speak to engineers...
Sony also does it, you will find that the whole industry is ripe with it (using engineering terms incorrectly, that is.....)
http://funnysalescartoons.com/photo/dilbert-product-knowledge
http://funnysalescartoons.com/photo/dilbert-as-a-sales-engineer-on?context=latest
No need to insult me, this was a simple question. And not for you btw.
I asked it because I have a multiprocessor chip at home which is in fact refereed to clockless and has the exact property I described, the GA144.
Of course there is are oscillators to drive the processors but they communicate with each other without global clock, and obviously the do not need clock buffers
(And yes there are anecdotes of people telling them their design wouldn't work, but it does and again I already own one of their functioning chips)