As you know, chip manufacturers are trying to create increasingly smaller and cheaper model. This typically focuses on reducing the standards process, increase the efficiency of production lines, etc. However IBM has gone the other way, she is working on creating a new generation of microchips, in which DNA is built, the foundation of life on Earth.

According to an article published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, artificial DNA nanostructures, or "DNA origami" could become a low-cost basis, which will be effective microchips. "This is the first demonstration of the use of biological molecules that can assist in developing the semiconductor industry", ─ said in an interview conglutination Narayan (Spike Narayan), head of research of IBM. ─ "Basically, this tells us that biological structures such as DNA, in fact, create a reproducible, repetitive patterns that we can actually use in the manufacture of semiconductors."

Currently, less than a chip, the more expensive equipment. Narayan said that the "DNA origami" in the scale of production to reduce production costs in the hundreds of millions of dollars to less than one million dollars. Scientists from the Research centrum IBM Almaden and California Institute of Technology in research of this issue. However, according to Narayan, before these developments to the stage of mass production will be approximately 10 years, since the technology needs of the experiments and testing.