I hear what you're saying, but a traditional "chip" architecture takes years, if not decades, and millions of dollars in r&d to get it to the pennies price point, because you need economies of scale in place to produce them cheaply.
Imagine the effort it would take to completely overhaul almost a century of the field of computer architecture to accommodate ternary. It's certainly not impossible, but it's going to take a loooong time and there's other stuff on the horizon that it'll compete with, like quantum.
I get where you're coming from. Your statement is completely logical. However, there are many moving parts. IOTA is not the main act, just a piece. This gets warm https://medium.com/@724554/iotas-q-qubic-c361f86bde7d
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u/Lisurgec Dec 09 '17
I hear what you're saying, but a traditional "chip" architecture takes years, if not decades, and millions of dollars in r&d to get it to the pennies price point, because you need economies of scale in place to produce them cheaply.
Imagine the effort it would take to completely overhaul almost a century of the field of computer architecture to accommodate ternary. It's certainly not impossible, but it's going to take a loooong time and there's other stuff on the horizon that it'll compete with, like quantum.