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by travmatt 2532 days ago
Hasn’t this style of computing been attempted previously by the soviets, why hadn’t it caught on previously? From my reading of the article it’s making the claim that as semiconductors become smaller, power leakage becomes more of a concern and the major breakthrough here is that ternary logic semiconductors would have an inherently better energy efficiency as it naturally stores more information. Has power leakage become enough of a concern that it makes development of these semiconductors more worthwhile?