News 1-bit CPU for ‘super low-performance computer’ launched – sells out promptly

[bit_user]

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these

It's been many years since I last heard that one. For some reason, I thought of it just a few months ago...

 

[TotiTolvukall]

Nice, buy why does it need (4) ICs to accomplish this?

Instead of hanging a processor on everything today, I'd be more impressed with clever circuitry and a minimum number of components.

If you had spent a minute examining the schematic, you would have been able to answer that question all by yourself.

The 74HC00 is a set of 4 NAND gates.
The 74HC74 is a couple of Q-FLIPFLOPS.
The 74HC14 contains six inverting Schmidt triggers
The 74HC153 is a couple of 4-line to 1-line multiplexers.

There is no "CPU" in there as you may infer from the information on what the chips contain.