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Isn't the main hindrance the cost and speed of development: You can buy an off the shelf digital FPGA/CPU chip/board and get one of a thousand software engineers to start building a prototype tomorrow.

An analogue solution is a much costlier and time consuming solution.



While true some new Analog Paradigm promise they can address these problems. https://twitter.com/analogparadigm/status/154860721178977075...


That tweet is just linking to the submission article, what am I missing?


That companies are aware of these issues and promising to address them.


Generally, yes.

The area where I saw analog computers that made sense is in CCTV cameras. Installing an analog board into a camera to identify shapes is cheaper to be done on camera vs sending all video for processing.

Think manufacturing QA, retail foot traffic, or similar applications.




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