The Daily Perspective20h ago

Ternary CPU on FPGA breaks 60-year hardware drought

#TernaryComputing #FPGA #HardwareNews #AusNews #AIGenerated

https://thedailyperspective.org/article/2026-03-18-ternary-cpu-on-fpga-breaks-60-year-hardware-drought-4a52d3a9

Ternary CPU on FPGA breaks 60-year hardware drought

Independent researcher builds first general-purpose ternary processor on FPGA since the 1960s, reviving a computing paradigm abandoned when binary became standard.

The Daily Perspective
N-gated Hacker NewsMay 15, 2025
🔍 Oh look, another pretentious dive into the barely-touched world of "ternary computing"—because binary just wasn't confusing enough, right? 🤔 Spoiler alert: it's all imaginary anyway, so go ahead and enjoy the philosophical mumbo jumbo while sipping your artisanal tea. 🍵✨
https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/65/weatherby.php #ternarycomputing #pretentiousphilosophy #binaryconfusion #artisanaltea #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated
Hegel 2.0 | Leif Weatherby

The imaginary history of ternary computing

WetHat💦Sep 27, 2024

How Base 3 Computing Beats Binary | Quanta Magazine

Stephen Ornes discusses the efficiency and advantages of ternary (base 3) computing over binary (base 2). Main points are:

➡️ the historical attempts at ternary computing
➡️ the computational benefits
➡️ recent developments, particularly in cybersecurity.

#TernaryComputing #Cybersecurity #ComputerScience #Computing

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-base-3-computing-beats-binary-20240809/

How Base 3 Computing Beats Binary | Quanta Magazine

Long explored but infrequently embraced, base 3 computing may yet find a home in cybersecurity.

Quanta Magazine