IBM and CalTech are working to put more power and performance in smaller sized microchips. IBM claims that these chips will be more energy-efficient and less expensive to manufacture compared to current microchips.
The possibility of having smaller, powerful and less-expensive microchips is now being developed using “DNA molecules to act as scaffolding for self-assembling nanotubes that could form the basis for future microprocessors that can be built via manufacturing processes of 22 nm and smaller.”
Microchip manufacturers are currently using a 45-nm manufacturing processes and are said to be moving towards the 32 nm limit.
Read more of the article: IBM, CalTech Use DNA for Future Microchips by Jeffrey Burt in eweek.com.
A paper of the IBM and CalTech researchers: “Placement and orientation of individual DNA shapes on lithographically patterned surfaces” will be published in the September issue of Nature Nanotechnology.
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