# The self-assembling computer chips of the future

- 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](https://www.ted.com/talks/karl_skjonnemand_the_self_assembling_computer_chips_of_the_future)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [The self-assembling computer chips of the future](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/karl_skjonnemand_the_self_assembling_computer_chips_of_the_future/d8ff9348736e), 12 min (TED's player)