World's smallest microcontroller looks like I could easily accidentally inhale it but packs a genuine 32-bit Arm CPU
World's smallest microcontroller looks like I could easily accidentally inhale it but packs a genuine 32-bit Arm CPU
A sneeze-inducing 1.38 mm² and small enough to make a Raspberry Pi look like a bus.
Just nuts that my 386 was to big to take on my pushy as a kid and now the same thing would get lost in my nose hairs
Nanobots of 90's sci-fi, here we finally come!
I want those fuckers powering little submarines that fight cancer cells right now - but realistically speaking, these microcontrollers would need to be at least one order two order of magnitude smaller for that, no?
"It does in fact run Doom", he said before he snorted a line of his new favorite drug - a dark grey line of Megaflops.
Wear your N95 around the next gen SoCs. We don't know the effects of inhaling them (yet)
The future: we have replaced the microplastic in our blood with microcontrollers
At what point do we become Borg
and it has started already! didn't you hear about the covid vaccine!!!
You guys are so out of the loop! RFK Jr has known about this and has been speaking about it since at least 2001 when he had that brain worm removed.
In broad terms, that seems to put it about on par with an Intel 386 chip from 1985
At 24 MHz, it's actually about 4-6 times faster than a full fledged 33 MHz i80386DX with 10 times as many transistors back in the day.
It's absolutely insane that i386 remained the standard with its inferior high latency design.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes
exhibiting BASIC language performance ten times faster than a newly introduced 80386-based computer
That was an 8MHz Arm system, and it was commonly recognized as being clearly faster than a 33MHz i80386DX!
In fact the 8036 was so inefficient at 33MHz it couldn't even beat the speed of a 16 MHz 80286 on 16 bit code!!
Mips, Alpha, Motorola, Sparc and finally Arm were all better, but they weren't backed by IBM, and the availability of clones made the PC relatively cheap. But basically everything else was better than Intel.Unfortunately Arm also lacked a math co-processor, so for tasks that were heavy on FP calculations, an i386 with co-processor was superior.
Also Arm was unable to sell them cheap enough to capture at least a niche market. (Apart from education in UK)
And for the hobbyist an Amiga was way cheaper, and had powerful graphics and sound chips.Thank you. This kind of information was exactly what I wanted in the comments.
As a person who started on a 286 this seems blazing fast. Just wish it had ports for power, HDMI and USB
This is making the Republicans so nervous.
Not in the forehead! Not in the forehead!
Looks like a micro Lego. Hell, it is a micro Lego.
How would you ever actually practically use this
I make specialty vehicle electronics. My immediate thought was very small and cheap sensors. Similar to tire pressure monitoring but wired with CAN or something similar.
Same way you would in any other microcontroller application, but smaller, so the whole device can be smaller.
Get small enough and we can really have those bloodstream robots.
Maybe an actual useful smart ring?
fly-sized spy drone
Wrist watch.