Claim GAPE - Gordon's async uproc exists

The Claim

Gordon Bell's commercial asynchronous processor exists.

Gordon Bell has offered $1000 for a fully asynchronous processor that is commercially available on April Fools day, 2000.

The claim is YES if Gordon Bell pays the $1000, however our understanding of the challenge is that

1. the design must be commercially available
2. the design must be fully asynchronous (no internally-generated or externally-supplied clocks)
3. the design must have an instruction set architecture (it must have a program counter, execute an instruction set and read and write to an external memory)

To be `commercially available' means it must be produced in volume using a standard process (e.g. MOSIS-fabbed designs do not count). The notion of a `standard process' is undefined; In principle `standard process' means that a second source for the designs could be acquired. The existence of such a second source is not required for the claim.

The claim is independent of the required operating temperature of the design (e.g. Martin's previous asynchronous efforts count if it were fabbed `commercially').

Background: ``Turning Back the Clock,'' Scientific American, June 1995, page 40.

Judge's Statement

I will judge based on the wording of the claim unless it is found to be ambiguous. Such ambiguities will be resolved based on my perception of the author's intent.

The Market

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