It's not a binary choice. Independent boffin builds a ternary CPU on an FPGA

The 5500FP is a ternary CPU implemented on an FPGA. It's not very fast, but it makes it easier to experiment with computers ...
Hackaday

Ternary RISC Processor Achieves Non-Binary Computing Via FPGA

You would be very hard pressed to find any sort of CPU or microcontroller in a commercial product that uses anything but ...
WRAL

Tom Snyder: Ternary systems promises energy savings to power the future of AI computation

Last year, I wrote about the massive energy costs of AI and General Purpose Transformers like ChatGPT. The AI capabilities are amazing, but the energy and environmental cost is concerning. To ...
Hackaday

Relays Run This Balanced Ternary Adder

If you’re at all familiar with digital computing, you’ll know that computers represent everything in binary values of one and ...