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The second half of that question is not relevant if the answer to the first half of the question is "no" (it wasn't rhetorical). QLC "NAND" is not a logic gate,
by kbolino 2y ago
The second half of that question is not relevant if the answer to the first half of the question is "no" (it wasn't rhetorical). QLC "NAND" is not a logic gate, it is a storage mechanism. It does not compute anything.
Modern magnetic hard drives use all sorts of analog tricks to increase information density but few would seriously argue that this constitutes a fundamentally different kind of computing.
Yes, QLC (etc.) is an innovation for data storage (with tradeoffs). No, it is not a non-binary computer hiding in plain sight.
- creer 2y agoFair enough. Common examples in storage and transmission. Not so common in computing for now. The closest obvious computing example, to my mind, is analog neural net blocks meant to be integrated in digital (binary) systems. Not ternary, old school (hah!) analog.