ISSCC: Genome processor, and 99.9% less heat from a 3D image processor

At ISSCC this in San Francisco this week, the National Taiwan University revealed a processor custom designed to crunch the vast amount of data that emerges as hundreds of millions of short DNA segments are analysed en-route to producing a three billion nucleotides gene sequence. The biological detective work flow includes four steps: short-read mapping, ...
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