As computers have progressed over the last few decades, with their component transistors getting ever smaller and ever more numerous on a single chip, that relentless progress, famously described by Moore’s Law, has begun to bump up against fundamental physical limits to what can be done with the present etched-lines-on-silicon technology. But now, a new twist involving an inorganic molecule that has a DNA-like helical shape may provide an alternative pathway that could shrink transistors down to atom-sized scales. And even DNA molecules themselves might ultimately become the bits and bytes and logic gates of the future.

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类 DNA 材料可以开辟新的计算前沿

随着计算机在过去几十年中的进步，其组件晶体管在单个芯片上变得越来越小，数量越来越多，这种无情的进步，即摩尔定律所描述的，已经开始与基本的物理限制发生碰撞。使用目前的硅上蚀刻线技术。但是现在，一种涉及具有类似 DNA 螺旋形状的无机分子的新方法可能会提供另一种途径，可以将晶体管缩小到原子大小。甚至 DNA 分子本身也可能最终成为未来的比特、字节和逻辑门。