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Re:The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effect... by thsksbd on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @01:24PM (#39541814)
Can you make a "CMOS" three voltage level circuit though? One where the only current flow is when the state changes?

Im not in this field but that's a question that's been bugging me for a while. Off you can't do this wouldn't energy consumption balloon?

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Re:The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effect... by neomantra on Thursday February 29, 2024 @07:41AM (#39548582)
My friend was working on this in the mid-90s at Texas Instruments. Not sure what the underlying semiconductors were, but it did involve making ternary logic via voltage levels. Just searched a bit and found this TI datasheet which might be an example of it (high logic, low logic, high impedance), but maybe not: https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/sn74act534.pdf
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