Chips That Flow With Probabilities, Not Bits

holy_calamity writes "Boston company Lyric Semiconductor has taken the wraps off a microchip designed for statistical calculations that eschews digital logic. It's still made from silicon transistors. But they are arranged gates that compute with analogue signals representing probabilities, not binary bits. That makes it easier to implement calculations of probabilities, says the company, which has a chip for correcting errors in flash memory claimed to be 30 times smaller than a digital logic-based equivalent."

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step closer to Probability Drive?

[lampsie]

As long as a sperm whale and a bowl of petunia's don't suddenly flicker into existance when I power it on, I'm all for it.