In almost all modern devices, such as smartphones and PCs, the computing device that processes data and the storage device that stores data are separated, and the speed at which data is exchanged between the devices limits the performance of the entire system. Unlike conventional devices that have this problem called the von Neumann bottleneck, a paper on early “DNA computing” was published that uses deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) to store the data of 1000 PCs in a space the size of a fingernail while also solving simple problems.
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