The major thing with a clock-based design is that you have to dedicate a huge amount of silicon and power just towards getting a clock signal all over the whole chip.
A group at Cambridge University also designed and fabricated an asynchronous CPU based on an early ARM a long time ago now. Like the ones mentioned in this article, it behaved very well. It would slow down if they pointed a hot air blower at it.
Reminds me of the way loud noises can cause permanent data-loss on hard-drives [0]. This is a real problem with loud fire-suppression gas-release systems [1].
Hmm. It does appear that perhaps when I was wondering around the Cambridge labs they may have claimed a little more than they should have. Maybe someone working there was collaborating with the Manchester group.
A group at Cambridge University also designed and fabricated an asynchronous CPU based on an early ARM a long time ago now. Like the ones mentioned in this article, it behaved very well. It would slow down if they pointed a hot air blower at it.