I saw a short post about this on Bit-Tech last night, & was very intrigued. I can tell you right now that every programmer on the planet is going to be frothing at the mouth at the possibilities...

"It's well known that two CPUs - whether two separate processors or two cores on the same die - don't generate, clock for clock, double the performance of a single CPU. However, by making the CPU once again appear as a single logical processor, AMD is claimed to believe it may be able to double the single-chip performance with a two-core chip or provide quadruple the performance with a quad-core processor.

The HardwareSecrets guys undressed an A64 & got some nudie pictures for your viewing pleasure. Sickos.

"Yesterday our socket 754 Athlon 64 3200+ burned and we decided to open it to take a look on how it looks like without its metallic cap. In fact it looks a lot like Athlon XP, but with a bigger die."

Well, the industry has been going in this direction over the last few years, but I certainly didn't expect something like the ARM9 this soon. Very interesting.

"Although reduced power consumption, due to the lack of clock circuitry, is one benefit the clockless design also produces a low electromagnetic signature because of the diffuse nature of digital transitions within the chip."