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The self-assembling computer chips of the future

Karl Skjonnemand · TED

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The transistors that power the phone in your pocket are unimaginably small: you can fit more than 3,000 of them across the width of a human hair. But to keep up with innovations in fields like facial recognition and augmented reality, we need to pack even more computing power into our computer chips -- and we're running out of space. In this forward-thinking talk, technology developer Karl Skjonnemand introduces a radically new way to create chips. "This could be the dawn of a new era of molecular manufacturing," Skjonnemand says.

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Institution
TED
Department
TED@Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
Speaker
Karl Skjonnemand
Year
2018
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Chemistry, Computer science, Engineering, Art, architecture and design
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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