Objectives:
- Revise the motivations for molecular nanotechnology, redirect R&D resources away from alternative pathways to continuation of Moore’s Law.
- Outline the long, multi-phase development path on the experimental side.
- Prove physical plausibility by shrinking the uncertainty in required parallelism and attainable reaction frequencies.
- Highlight new technologies (organotin tripods) that must be developed proactively, to arrive just on schedule for the later development phases.
- Take action to break the barrier to entry for Phase I.
- Outline the ambitions for a CAD software suite, which will lead to improved clarity on the more far-term development phases.
- PyTorch for nanomachines. Importance of ergonomic API design and greater programmability, unlocking more control for the user. This often comes with negative effects on backend performance (CPU–GPU communication gap) and a higher barrier to entry (more extensive tutorial suite).
- The need to restrict the software stack to Apple silicon and high-end Windows PCs (AVX2, discrete GPUs).
- The strange realization that simulators are out of scope for the CAD foundation.
Table of Contents:
- Experimental Development Pathway
- Principal Issue
- Near-Term
- Experiments (Phase I–II)
- Commercialization (Phase III)
- CAD Software
- Motivation (Phase IV)
- Influencing Documents (Phase IV)
- Implementation Plan (Phase V–VI)
© 2025. Philip A. Turner. Permissively licensed.
Drafted in collaboration with the open source community.