This new goal is an addition to the research on the "DNA origami," conducted by Paul Rothemund of California Institute of Technology. Currently, more and more researchers are turning to DNA in search of an older goal, the "self-assembly".

The advantages of building semiconductors based on DNA and nanotubes are especially concerning the chips' size, given the fact that DNA can work at a 2-nanometer scale. Imagine a chip built at two-nanometer node, then compare it to a state-of-the-art processor built with the 45-nanometer production node.

A very long time ago as a physics student I studied generation 7 of computer design, whic argued that biocomputing would be vital for nanoscale. At the time we were at generation 1. Every one of the predicted generations has come to pass.