IBM Develops DNA Microchips
Posted on Aug 17, 2009 in Articles
Artificial intelligence has been bringing computers to life… but now IBM is bringing life to computers. “This is the first demonstration of using biological molecules to help with processing in the semiconductor industry,” Spike Narayan.
“Basically, this is telling us that biological structures like DNA actually offer some very reproducible, repetitive kinds of patterns that we can actually leverage in semiconductor processes,”
Spike Narayan, IBM’s research manager, told Reuters about the possibility of DNA-based microchips that would be more cost-effective and usable for computers in the future.
While we might not imagine human body parts crammed in our business computers and much less, laptops, IBM seems to be spending a good deal of publicity and their research toward this project.
Before we know it… our computers could start looking a lot like this:
From what I’ve seen of IBM, they don’t kid around when they introduce projects like these. Although I don’t anticipate a massive bound in the success and drop in computer prices even when they are released, it’s definitely a milestone as computer engineering and innovation goes.
MSNBC says,
“But the new processes are at least 10 years out. Narayan said that while the DNA origami could allow chipmakers to build frameworks that are far smaller than possible with conventional tools, the technique still needs years of experimentation and testing.”
Who knows, maybe biological studies for computer development could be what help us solve other crises and issues that we see in our society after all.
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