Landauer’s principle is an information-theoretic result about the fundamental cost of computations. With CMOS, every logic gate has multiple transistors, some o

Landauer’s principle is an information-theoretic result about the fundamental cost of computations. With CMOS, every logic gate has multiple transistors, some of which just get charged and dumped to ground with every state transition anyway. It is like worry about Carnot’s limit… for a motor boat.