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Re:If you can’t explain something in simple terms, you don’t... by tlb on Thursday June 15, 2017 @07:34PM (#14565389)
Modern CPUs have phase-locked loops generating clocks for each region of the chip. These use separate pull-up and pull-down mosfets to control the frequency, so arguably ternary.

Even more non-binary things happen inside DRAM and flash memory.

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Re:If you can’t explain something in simple terms, you don’t... by Cyph0n on Thursday June 15, 2017 @07:54PM (#14565480)
Ehh I don't believe PLLs have a ternary component at all. I'm not an expert though.

DRAM is analog-based due to the fact that the core memory unit is a capacitor, so it can't be ternary (not digital). I might agree with flash though.

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