[UncleOxidant]

Yeah, that seems to be the case. Though, I suspect Microsoft is interested in implementing something like a custom RISC-V CPU that has an ALU that's tuned for doing this ternary math and added custom vector/matrix instructions. Something like that could save them a lot of power in their data centers.

If it were to catch on then perhaps we'd see Intel, AMD, ARM adding math ops optimized for doing ternary math?

[yalok]

my dream is to see ternary support at the HW wire level - that'd be even more power efficient, and transistor count may be less...