Its main raw material is protein molecule produced by bioengineering technology, which is used as biochip. Biochips are much smaller than electronic components on silicon wafers, and they have a natural and unique three-dimensional structure, and the density is five orders of magnitude higher than that of planar silicon integrated circuits.
Biocomputers can think and reason like a human brain, know characters and numbers, and understand human language, so they can become the best partners in people's lives and play an important role in communication equipment, satellite navigation and industrial control.
Physicists in the biological computer department of Bell Laboratories are developing artificial ears and artificial retinas made of chips. The success of this technology is expected to rehabilitate the deaf and blind.
It will take some time for the mature application of bio-computer, but scientists have developed the main component of bio-computer-biochip. Minnesota State University developed the world's first "molecular circuit", and the microcircuit composed of "molecular wires" is only one thousandth of the current computer circuit.
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Through the research of biological tissues, scientists found that tissues are composed of countless cells, which are composed of water, salt, protein, nucleic acid and other organic substances, and protein molecules in some organic substances have the functions of "on" and "off" like switches.
Therefore, humans can use genetic engineering technology to replicate this protein molecule and use it as a component to make computers. Scientists call this kind of computer a biological computer.
Biocomputers are mainly computers built with bioelectronic components. It uses protein's switching characteristics to make biochips with protein molecules as elements.
Its performance is determined by the switching speed of current between components. A computer chip made of protein has only one molecule storage point, so its storage capacity can reach one billion times that of an ordinary computer.
The size of an integrated circuit made of protein is only one hundredth of that of a silicon integrated circuit. And the running speed is faster, only1×10 (-11) seconds, which greatly exceeds the thinking speed of human brain.
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