Ternary Logic CPUs

Performance and efficiency in the third Millennium
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Native Hardware Execution

Run entire operating systems, complex algorithms, and advanced computational models natively in a pure three-state environment. The 5500FP handles every layer of your software stack directly in ternary, providing total architectural freedom from the core up.

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Higher Information Density

Each trit natively carries more information than a bit (approximately 1.58 bits), enabling highly compact data structures for finite automata, formal parsing, and multi-valued routing. Express complex, multi-state problems directly in their natural logic paradigm, without forcing them into a binary world.

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Optimized for AI & ML

Ternary logic maps perfectly to Ternary Neural Networks (TNNs) and modern LLM weight quantization (-1, 0, +1). Executing these architectures natively at the hardware level eliminates binary emulation bottlenecks, opening new operational frontiers for symbolic AI and alternative machine learning models.

Traditional CPUs use binary logic to process data
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Why ternary

Moore's law is no longer valid. As transistors approach atomic scale, other factors, like energy consumption and heat generation become the new limiting factors.

With ternary systems, the information density per connector can be increased. A 41 trits system would be on par with 64 bits system.

The benefits of this higher information density will make the actual data storage, communication or actual processing even more efficient.

Ternary computing has been mostly an academic research topic since binary computing became mainstream since 1970.

To bring ternary computing forward we would need to build a lot of new infrastructure and tooling to create something that is actually useful.

The advantage is that we don't need to worry about most of the binary legacy stuff and can focus on a system that is optimized for the future.

Our revolutionary ternary CPU uses a three-state system

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Ternary will shine

A lot of applications will benefit from the ternary's Three Value Logic.

  • clear_all   Data processing and storage
  • data_usage   Relational databases
  • details   SMT/SAT Solvers
  • dialpad   Machine learning and Pattern recognition
  • dashboard   AI and Large Language Models (LLM)

What we do

We are right in the centrer of ternary computing

  • cameraResearch
  • domainCircuit design
  • child_friendlyPrototyping
  • buildTooling
  • castEducation
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Our Knowledge

Resources

We share our knowledge

  • domainLogic Gates
  • cameraResearch papers
  • directionsUse cases and puzzles
  • messageCourses and tutorials

Software

We provide tooling

  • movieAssembler / DeAssembler
  • movie_filterEmulator / Debugger
  • dashboardCompiler
  • buildWorkbench
  • bubble_chartGate optimizer

Hardware

We provide real hardware with ternary processors

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Only 21 trits represent approximately the same number of states as 32 bits

This unlocks new possibilities in processing power and energy efficiency
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