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		pumplekin 71 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Trinary Dream Endures I've always thought we could put a bit of general purpose TCAM into general purpose computers instead of just routers and switches, and see what people can do with it. I know (T)CAM's are used in CPU's, but I am nore thinking of the kind of research being done with TCAM's in SSD like products, so maybe we will get there some day.

cyberax 71 days ago | [–]

TCAM still uses 2-bit binary storage internally, it just ignores one of the values.

hinkley 71 days ago | [–]

There’s a lot of tech in signaling that doesn’t end up on CPUs and I’ve often wondered why.

Some of it is ending up in power circuitry.

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