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Manufactured by Freescale, this chunk of silicon claims to be the world’s smallest ARM-powered chip. Measuring just 2 x 2 x 0.5 millimetres, it’s so small that it will likely end up inside… you.
It packs a modest 48 MHz ARM Cortex-M0+ processor, paired with 32KB of flash memory and 4KB of RAM. That might not sound like a lot compared to the hardware specs we’re used to, but then this thing isn’t designed to run desktop software. In fact, speaking to WIRED, a Freescale spokesperson explained that it is “working with customers and partners on providing technology for their products that can be swallowed.”
Amazing! If you’re interested in building smart pills, the chips will cost 50p a shot… when purchased in 100,000-unit loads. [WIRED]
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This is when things get interesting. Although computing power increases exponentially and we can now have the computing power of a decent netbook inside of our phone, until now, we have yet to have seen truly tiny computers being made with useable processing power.
Components like this will make standard copper PCBs useless. I think high resolution 3D printing using conducting materials might be the answer to this problem though. Imagine a tiny self-contained computer cube that contains this AMD chip, a wireless chip, a battery, a solar panel and sensors that is only 3x3x3mm for $1-$2 per computer.
You could shower whole countries with them to provide truly accurate climate information and much much more.
We put and arm in your arm so, oh nevermind…
…so you can arm while you arm