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This is one of the current news articles: Scientists turn memory chips into processors to speed up computing tasks[^]

Ok, I get it that they make ternary memories. That's fine, but not really sensational. Using ternary memories does not magically speed up the entire system, as they would like to make us believe. It would simply extend the value range of the memory words and also raise the question of how to interface it to a binary bus without creating a bottleneck.

Then they write:

"Asst Prof Chattopadhyay who is from NTU's School of Computer Science and Engineering, said in current computer systems, all information has to be translated into a string of zeros and ones before it can be processed."

Nowhere inside that box under your desk anything is translated to a string of zeros and ones, if we forget some Q&A ideas for now. Serial communication may speed up if you are not limited to binary symbols, but that's about all.

If this 'News' makes any sense at all, it may be that they made a new sort of serial ROMs that need less time to up- or download their content over the serial pins. That's nice, but not really so spectacular.

Edit: I was right. Those memories are indeed just a new sort of serial ROM.
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