DNA Ascendancy

A DNA computer, through trading space for time, enables a desktop machine to outperform the world’s current fastest supercomputer, while consuming a tiny fraction of the energy, the company says.

The team of DNA Ascendancy comprises Ross King, professor of biotechnology at the University of Cambridge; Dr Irina Gostimskaya, an authority on reading, writing, and editing DNA; Dr Konstantin Korovin, specialising in SAT-solving technology; Professor Bengt Nordén, a DNA expert and former Chair of the Nobel Prize Committee for Chemistry; and entrepreneur Johan Borendal.

DNA Ascendancy’s patented desktop DNA computer will have a projected peak speed of >1020 operations per second, a memory of >1.25x1023 bytes, and will use ~3kW of power.