[HN Gopher] Transistor for fuzzy logic hardware: promise for bet...
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       Transistor for fuzzy logic hardware: promise for better edge
       computing
        
       Author : wglb
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2024-11-12 18:38 UTC (5 days ago)
        
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       | westurner wrote:
       | ScholarlyArticle: "A van der Waals interfacial junction
       | transistor for reconfigurable fuzzy logic hardware" (2024)
       | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-024-01256-3
        
       | westurner wrote:
       | I've heard it said that, we could do quantum computational
       | operations with analog electronic components except for the
       | variance in component quality.
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       | How do these fuzzy logic electronic components overcome the same
       | challenges as analog electronic quantum computing?
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       | The article describes performance on a visual CNN Convolutional
       | Neural Network ML task.
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       | Is quantum logic the only sufficient logic to describe systems
       | with phase?
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       | What is most production cost and operating cost efficient at this
       | or similar ML tasks?
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       | For reference, from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41322088
       | re: "A carbon-nanotube-based tensor processing unit" (2024)
       | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-024-01211-2 :
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       | > _The TPU is constructed with a systolic array architecture that
       | allows parallel 2 bit integer multiply-accumulate operations. A
       | five-layer convolutional neural network based on the TPU can
       | perform MNIST image recognition with an accuracy of up to 88% for
       | a power consumption of 295 uW. We use an optimized nanotube
       | fabrication process_ [...] 1 TOPS /W/s
        
       | Animats wrote:
       | Chalcogenides? Like Ovonics?[1] That led decades ago to fast-
       | read, slow-write memory devices. It was a dead end in
       | electronics, but it did work. Makes sense for something that is
       | slowly reconfigurable, like an FPGA.
       | 
       |  _" This advancement could shift information processing from data
       | centers to local devices, providing real-time responses and
       | extending battery life for applications like robotic motion
       | control and autonomous vehicles."_
       | 
       | Now that's a big stretch.
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       | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Conversion_Devices
        
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