From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!houxz!houxi!houxa!houxk!houxj!wapd
Newsgroups: net.arch
Title: Re: houxj.205: Re: Biochips... or bull chips?
Article-I.D.: houxj.208
Posted: Thu Jan 27 15:03:47 1983
Received: Sun Jan 30 07:17:00 1983
References: cwruecmp.440


	Maybe transitions at the molecule level could be fast, but does
that necessarily translate into overall speed of a large processor ?
The situation is probably analogous to that of VLSI today :  things are
fine if you can fit them all onto one chip, but any time you have to
drive a pin it falls apart.  Everyone dreams of putting so much stuff
on a chip that you don't ever have to go across pin boundaries (called
wafer-scale devices), but that technology is still several years off.
The same will happen with bio-chips :  for the first ten years they
may be slower than VLSI, and then eventually they will pass it.

					Bill Dietrich
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