Comment Re:Clockless processors (New?) (Score 1) 351
Handshake Solutions is Philips. Philips Nat Lab was probably the only other place of research on asynchrone ARM based cores next to Steve Furber's Amulet research at Manchester Uni. There were contacts between the institutes, Furber's project was supported by Philips. Probably as much of Philips in this design as from Manchester Uni. Main core elements ARM based of course.
Philips has a longer history with asynchrone chip designs based on another core, about 20 years, with a first one ready in 1987, the same year the first Acorn Archimedes with an ARM CPU appeared and Steve Furber still was with Acorn. ARM Ltd was established in 1990 with Acorn and Apple as its main shareholders. At the same time Furber started the Amulet project.
Philips has a longer history with asynchrone chip designs based on another core, about 20 years, with a first one ready in 1987, the same year the first Acorn Archimedes with an ARM CPU appeared and Steve Furber still was with Acorn. ARM Ltd was established in 1990 with Acorn and Apple as its main shareholders. At the same time Furber started the Amulet project.
