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logicflow989

Anybody have any insights on this chip?

https://extropic.ai/writing/thermodynamic-computing-from-zero-to-one

I have been working on a program targeting this chip (the program is cool AF IMO, ill share if anybody is interested) and through my entire work and research I see virtually nobody talking about the chip or Extropic themselves.

From what they claim its a sampling unit that works at room temp with very little in the way of energy consumption using thermodynamics to physically charge and relax "pbits" (programmed and vibrating transistors that chaotically shift between 0 and 1) to do block gibbs sampling.

From what I can tell from their documentation they are targeting training AI models with this chip and they have some denoising examples on their repo and website.

The whole point of my post - Isn't this just an advanced FPGA? What are yall's thoughts? Any thoughts on stochastic/thermodynamic computing in general?

Posted Jun 17, 2026, 1:18 PM UTC

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