Just as it was the ill gotten seed of King Arthur's loins that begat his evil son Mordred, who eventually brought about the ruin of Camelot, so has the suspect old warlock that is IBM Corporation robbed us of our own generative seed to add to its boiling cauldron of Evil Robot madness! Woe!

"As chip geometries get infinitesimally small, IBM is looking to DNA to make the manufacture of future chips feasible.

On Monday, IBM researchers and collaborator Paul W.K. Rothemund, of the California Institute of Technology, announced an advancement of a method to arrange DNA origami structures on surfaces compatible with today's semiconductor manufacturing equipment.

"The cost involved in shrinking (chip) features to improve performance is a limiting factor in keeping pace with Moore's Law and a concern across the semiconductor industry," said Spike Narayan, a manager in the Science & Technology division of IBM Research, in a statement."

Like tiny iridescent human pearls before Evil Robot swine...

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