The word "asynchronous" is correct in written English.
It is used to describe events that do not occur at the same time or are not synchronized.
Example: "The asynchronous communication allowed team members to respond to messages at their convenience."
Alternatives: "Non-simultaneous" or "Out of sync."
Wilf Pinfold, the director of microprocessor research at Intel, points out that opinions over the value of asynchronous design are quite divided.
There are very few synchronous collaborative tools, most of it is asynchronous.
This week it agreed to spend $4.5 billion buying Fore, a Pittsburgh company that has one of the best switches in the world for Internet traffic, using ATM (which stands for Asynchronous Transfer Mode).
The limiting factor of podcasting, says Mr Curry, is that it is "inherently asynchronous" (ie, not live).
And it is becoming more difficult as chips get larger and more complex.Tick, tockThat is why Sun is aggressively exploring "asynchronous" technology, which involves getting rid of the clock entirely.
Asynchronous, or "clockless", designs, in contrast, allow different bits of a chip to work at different speeds, sending data to and from each other as and when appropriate.The idea of asynchronous logic goes back to the dawn of digital computers.
Such an attack would be far more difficult on a smartcard based on asynchronous logic.There is, of course, a catch.
But Dr Furber suggests that the most promising application for asynchronous chips may be in mobile wireless devices and smartcards.Wireless devices based on asynchronous chips would run for longer between recharges, and their circuitry would cause less radio interference.
Hence the name.In the past the main problem with asynchronous induction motors was the difficulty of varying their speed.
It is not interactive, and it operates, like all e-mail, in an asynchronous fashion, with long delays between call and response.Thus, Wal-Mart's ordering system might use EDI to send a purchase order to a supplier in the morning; once the supplier accepted the order it might direct its computers to send a confirmation back.
In contrast to the static web pages of the 1990s, the second wave of websites would use software (such as AJAX, or "asynchronous JavaScript and XML") that makes web pages look like dynamic software applications that traditionally run only on personal computers.
