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This breakthrough in electro-chemical synthesis sites enables petabyte-scale DNA production within 24 hours, fundamentally altering the cost and speed feasibility of molecular computing. By leveraging established CMOS processes, AtlasBase creates a scalable data layer that complements silicon infrastructure for high-density, long-term archival and specialized computation. This advancement marks a significant step forward in practical applications for synthetic DNA as a viable medium for massive-scale data storage and processing.
Petabyte-scale synthetic DNA chip lets AtlasBase create a year’s worth of DNA in 24 hours

AtlasBase’s Thalia chip, developed with imec, scales up production of DNA to a 700x increase, delivering petabyte-scale synthetic DNA.
AtlasBase has created a new molecular computing platform powered by Thalia, a chip with 5.6 billion electro-chemical synthesis sites, a 700x increase over existing DNA synthesis chips. The company reports that a single day of production on Thalia now achieves what previously took the entire synthetic DNA industry a full year to manufacture. This addresses critical cost and turnaround time issues for scaling molecular computing, which stores and processes data directly within synthetic DNA. “For 2 billion…
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