It's not a binary choice. Independent boffin builds a ternary CPU on an FPGA

The 5500FP is a ternary CPU implemented on an FPGA. It's not very fast, but it makes it easier to experiment with computers ...
Hackaday

Ternary RISC Processor Achieves Non-Binary Computing Via FPGA

You would be very hard pressed to find any sort of CPU or microcontroller in a commercial product that uses anything but binary to do its work. And yet, other options exist! Ternary computing ...
PC Magazine

ternary computer

A computer that uses ternary circuits comprising three stages rather than binary circuits, which operate in two. A ternary computer named Setun was built at the Moscow State University in 1958, and an ...
The Motley Fool

The Next Artificial Intelligence (AI) Evolution Could Send This Quantum Computing Stock Soaring

Current artificial intelligence applications are pushing the limits of typical silicon and its underlying binary bits. New kinds of computers built to take advantage of quantum mechanical properties ...