Social games on Facebook typically have asynchronous actions: a player does something, and other players react later, and not in real time.

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"Toggle DDR provides a faster interface than conventional NAND using an asynchronous design, delivering the benefits of high-speed data transfer to a wider market, such as for solid state drive (SSD) applications including enterprise storage, mobile phones, multimedia terminals and consumer products, " said Masaki Momodomi, Technical Executive, Memory product, Toshiba Corporation.

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For example, Philips, a Dutch electronics manufacturer, has already built a pager that uses asynchronous technology.

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