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 === Rejected and company closed === === Rejected and company closed ===
  
-After considering many designs, including analog and ternary weights, I ended up with 4 bit weights and activations. ​ This achives ​the goals albeit uncomfortably similar to the TPU.  The scale of work needed to make the trainsition from fp32/fp16 to 4bit is too great - the first prototype would be noticed by the giants and the company would be overtaken and left worthless.+After considering many designs, including analog and ternary weights, I ended up with 4 bit weights and activations. ​ This achieves ​the goals albeit uncomfortably similar to the TPU.  The scale of work needed to make the trainsition from fp32/fp16 to 4bit is too great - the first prototype would be noticed by the giants and the company would be overtaken and left worthless.
  
 Start October 2018, end February 2019, minimal external costs. Start October 2018, end February 2019, minimal external costs.