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The Next Generation Chips being developed by IBM might just be the answer for the speed hungry and the limitation posed by today’s technology to further pack more speed into a chip without more power consumption and keeping it small.

IBM Research and the California Institute of Technology announced a scientific breakthrough that can be a major leap to enable semiconductor industries to pack extra speed & power into the tiny computer chips, & at the same time making it more energy efficient & less expensive in manufacturing

IBM Scientist have been experimenting to use DNA and Advance Nano technology to build tiny circuits which can then form the basis for the chips and high-speed processors. Consequently this will lead to better efficiency in terms of power consumption by the chips and also to integrate larger number of circuits inside a chip.

The Semiconductor industry till now had been facing the problem of developing lithographic technology for creating chips that are smaller than 22 nanometer. But this new method of using DNA’s scaffolding is that the carbon nanotubes might get deposited & get itself assembled in exact patterns joining/sticking to DNA molecules which might just be the answer in crossing the “below 22 nm” mark.

While citing that the high cost involved in shrinking circuits for performance was hampering in keeping up with Moore’s law and also a concern for the industry, Narayan, manager, Science & Technology, IBM Research, said that this breakthrough will lead to development of high end chips that are not only cost effective but also fulfill the high demands of today’s world for efficient and more powerful processors.