cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/49670
Massive volumes of digital data are generated every day from AI training, big data analytics and smart devices. As conventional hard drives and cloud storage are increasingly constrained by high costs, limited capacity, high power consumption and short lifespans, molecular data storage has emerged as a breakthrough storage alternative.
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Chip shortage solved! Long live the new flesh!



thunderous speed in the range of minutes per residue (not every aminoacid can be used and what they’re printing is dna, not proteins so multiply it 3x. they’re encoding 3 bits per aminoacid, but there’s overhead, error correction and structural requirements that make data density lower than 1 bit per nucleobase)