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? -------- 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. --------