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World's smallest computer (1 MILLIMETRE square)
« on: February 25, 2011, 10:00:47 am »
Oooooh.. small stuff.. 'At just one square millimetre in size, the tiny device is a pressure monitor that is implanted in a person's eye.'

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Re: World's smallest computer (1 MILLIMETRE square)
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2011, 11:12:28 am »
I would hardly call it a computer. PIC10F200 in a SOT23 package probably has a die of about the same size. Sure it doesn't have a battery, but that's not a requirement of being a computer.
 

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Re: World's smallest computer (1 MILLIMETRE square)
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2011, 12:11:57 pm »
ah its the dailmail
i wonder how long it will take the dailmail to be convinced this computer will give cancer

http://kill-or-cure.heroku.com/
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Re: World's smallest computer (1 MILLIMETRE square)
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2011, 01:28:15 pm »
If this is a computer then my digital watch is a server farm.
 

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Re: World's smallest computer (1 MILLIMETRE square)
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2011, 02:36:47 pm »
So it's not a computer?

It does have a motherboard (of sorts,) a chip (Pheonix chip) which apparently is capable of running instruction sets, memory and a wireless link.


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Re: World's smallest computer (1 MILLIMETRE square)
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2011, 04:19:49 pm »
I would hardly call it a computer. PIC10F200 in a SOT23 package probably has a die of about the same size. Sure it doesn't have a battery, but that's not a requirement of being a computer.

The guy who sold me a batch of PIC10F200s advertised them as "the world smallest computer."

Surprisingly, they were good parts.
 

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Re: World's smallest computer (1 MILLIMETRE square)
« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2011, 05:03:56 pm »
It all has to do with how you define the word computer. I would say something that performs computations, and with this definition, there are much smaller computers than this. Marketing...

I would say this is a small smart transducer.
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Re: World's smallest computer (1 MILLIMETRE square)
« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2011, 09:17:17 pm »
I would hardly call it a computer. PIC10F200 in a SOT23 package probably has a die of about the same size. Sure it doesn't have a battery, but that's not a requirement of being a computer.
I left a comment saying just that but afterwards it asked for me to register which I didn't bother to do.

Yes it's marketing of course and similar technology has been used inside transponders fitted to animals for years.
 

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Re: World's smallest computer (1 MILLIMETRE square)
« Reply #8 on: February 25, 2011, 09:30:09 pm »
dailmail enough said
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Re: World's smallest computer (1 MILLIMETRE square)
« Reply #9 on: February 26, 2011, 12:43:26 am »
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'The applications for systems of this size are endless'
Nature: Evolution and the Illusion of Randomness (Stephen L. Talbott): Its now indisputable that... organisms “expertise” contextualizes its genome, and its nonsense to say that these powers are under the control of the genome being contextualized - Barbara McClintock
 


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