Here's the bottom line for anyone who doesn't want to read the whole article.
> Using a commercially available 28-nanometer ASIC process technology, we have profiled (8, 1, 5, 5, 7) log ELMA as 0.96x the power of int8/32 multiply-add for a standalone processing element (PE).
> Extended to 16 bits this method uses 0.59x the power and 0.68x the area of IEEE 754 half-precision FMA
In other words, interesting but not earth shattering. Great to see people working in this area though!
> Using a commercially available 28-nanometer ASIC process technology, we have profiled (8, 1, 5, 5, 7) log ELMA as 0.96x the power of int8/32 multiply-add for a standalone processing element (PE).
> Extended to 16 bits this method uses 0.59x the power and 0.68x the area of IEEE 754 half-precision FMA
In other words, interesting but not earth shattering. Great to see people working in this area though!