Someone I worked for a while ago would have summed this up as: "a cure for no known disease".
I know a little about CMOS transistor and logic design, but I'm certainly no expert. Still, I'm not seeing the advantages of ternary numbers. I'd be interested in hearing otherwise.
At today's geometries we have a hard enough time keeping binary gates and memory cells working reliably. Ternary just doesn't seem to be practical. Perhaps with another supply voltage? E.g. +1.5, 0, -1.5? But today's CPUs very very aggressively vary supply voltage in order to conserve power. Now they'd have to fiddle with two voltages? Bah!
I know a little about CMOS transistor and logic design, but I'm certainly no expert. Still, I'm not seeing the advantages of ternary numbers. I'd be interested in hearing otherwise.
At today's geometries we have a hard enough time keeping binary gates and memory cells working reliably. Ternary just doesn't seem to be practical. Perhaps with another supply voltage? E.g. +1.5, 0, -1.5? But today's CPUs very very aggressively vary supply voltage in order to conserve power. Now they'd have to fiddle with two voltages? Bah!