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You're not building any distinct conductive "wires" in a cell - each wire is a global chemical signal, therefore there is a hard limit on how many of those you can put into a single cell.

And, behavioural is not supported (i.e., no flip-flops, and definitely no clock signal), so you can only have combinational logic.



Thanks for your input. So it seems, there are indeed huge limitations ... Could you give a rough number "on how many of those you can put into a single cell"?

Anyway, I still think, this is a great step forward, but maybe not as revolutionary, as I thought at first look (I think basic info like this, belongs into the news article).


Could you not split the computation up across multiple cells? IE: Don't only create 1 cell, create 4 cells that do different parts of the task an do message passing to each other.




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