From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!brunix!mjb
Newsgroups: net.arch
Title: Biochips... or bull chips?
Article-I.D.: brunix.1295
Posted: Mon Jan 24 12:47:21 1983
Received: Fri Jan 28 06:35:43 1983

The following is reprinted in full from the Providence Journal (1/18/83).
Anybody know anything more?

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	    ORGANIC COMPUTER CHIP UNDER DEVELOPMENT

NEW YORK (UPI) -- A research firm in Rockville, MD., is developing a
revolutionary new computer "biochip" that will supposedly require no
electricity and be more than a billion times more powerful than today's
computer circuits.

James McAlear, founder of EMV Associates, Inc., says the biochip could be
fabricated within five years.

One biochip computer could conceivably contain "all the data stored in all
the world's computers," according to McAlear. Biochip switching times would
also be 100 million times faster than the 64K random access memory chips
now used.

A typical biochip would measure just .01 micron.
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