On, off — and a meaningful maybe. Ternary computes in three values, −1, 0, +1: fewer symbols, native sparsity, lower energy. And it runs on the silicon the world already builds.
Synapticode walked the ternary vertical end to end — trit, silicon, toolchain — so your evaluation starts from a finished map.
Hundreds of patent applications · 8.4× whole-model compression · tern-core public
One signature opens the portfolio. Portfolio evaluation is available under NDA.
The map of the estate, walked with you — from the trit, through ternary-native silicon, to a production EDA toolchain.
tern-core compresses a nominated LLM on your NPU — measured footprint, measured throughput, measured watts.
An evaluation licence opens the tooling. You compress and run models free; your engineers take the measurements, and both sides may cite them.
White-glove onboarding runs capacity-capped at four partners.
The moment an application enters production, it converts to a paid proof-of-concept — priced per programme: small, ongoing, budgetable. Your evaluation results carry over.
Mature programmes graduate to per-unit licensing with NRE porting. Terms are set at signing and hold for the life of the architecture.
Evaluation stays free. Production is what converts.
To count to 128, binary spends eight bits. Ternary spends five trits. Same number — fewer symbols. Every layer of compute above it inherits that margin.
The same illustration Samsung-funded ternary-semiconductor research used to show the gain. Fewer symbols to move, store, and switch — measured as less energy.
In 2019, Samsung-funded research built a working, energy-efficient ternary semiconductor on a full wafer — and Samsung began verifying it at its own foundry fab. We saw the whole vertical — from the trit, through integrated 3D-neural silicon, to a production EDA toolchain — and backed that vertical, end to end.
“Using the ternary system of 0, 1, 2 lessens the amount of information a semiconductor processes — and does it faster, with less power.”
— Samsung-backed ternary CMOS research (UNIST, 2019), verified at Samsung foundry
Ternary lifts the day a level — and each one looks different from the last. Twelve everyday centres, each improved by a system that can say SURE · UNSURE · UNKNOWN.
Models up to 8× smaller run locally. Assistance without the round-trip to the cloud, or the drain.
On, off, and a deliberate hold. The difference between graceful and abrupt at highway speed.
Always-on inference that runs on the device. Private by construction, not by policy.
Every version, source, and change travels inside the file — history you can trust without a server.
A transaction can clear on SURE, pause on UNSURE, and stop on UNKNOWN — fewer false declines, fewer clean frauds.
A reading flags unsure instead of guessing confidently — the honest state clinicians actually need.
A middle electrical state lets power stages coast deliberately. Less waste on every watt delivered.
The model and its audit trail live with you. Your data stays yours, and can prove it.
Transit and driver-assist that step down through defined states rather than dropping out.
Video and audio compressed by sparsity, with authenticity that travels alongside the stream.
Every answer tagged SURE, UNSURE, or UNKNOWN — help that tells you when to trust it.
A certified, named safe state for flight systems — safety with a name, not an assumption.
Clearer constraint, faster convergence, better output.
Two ways to feel it: the cost of a thing across its whole life, and the function of one everyday thing done better.
ONE PRODUCT · SIX LINES · ALL IMPROVED
A DOCUMENT, WALKED THROUGH ITS LIFE
The story above is for everyone. The silicon that carries it starts with the partners already building the world's most efficient NPUs.
Read the argument, see the edge, and follow where ternary reaches your day. Then talk to us about where it fits yours.
Request a briefingWe compress a nominated LLM with tern-core on your NPU and publish the footprint and TPS/W here — ternary as the bit below INT4.
NPU results — publishing as tests landTernary-native standard cells, SRAM³, and a full EDA path for three-state logic on existing CMOS — the toolchain that turns 2019's research result into product.
Open a foundry conversationSynapticode designs. Our partners build. That division is structural — licensing is the whole business, and every dollar we earn arrives because a partner shipped.
Your implementation is yours. Differentiate freely, price freely, roadmap freely. Royalty terms are set per unit and hold for the life of the architecture.
We grow when you grow. The relationship is symbiotic by design — a licensor whose only path to success runs through yours.
You take the market. We take the next design.
Synapticode is the ternary licensing specialist — foundational ternary IP, design-only, licensed per unit for the life of the architecture. Portfolio evaluation is available under NDA. Terms that hold for the life of the design.
Ternary arrives on its own schedule. Authorship is the part with a closing date.
“We write the Korean standard.”
Extra novel designer trit.
Upgrade the entire silicon ecosystem, then make more than ever made.