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tlb on June 15, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: If you can’t explain something in simple terms, yo...

Modern CPUs have phase-locked loops generating clocks for each region of the chip. These use separate pull-up and pull-down mosfets to control the frequency, so arguably ternary.

Even more non-binary things happen inside DRAM and flash memory.

Cyph0n on June 15, 2017 [–]

Ehh I don't believe PLLs have a ternary component at all. I'm not an expert though.

DRAM is analog-based due to the fact that the core memory unit is a capacitor, so it can't be ternary (not digital). I might agree with flash though.

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