“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)
We don’t know the effects of inhaling them (yet)
This is making the Republicans so nervous.
Not in the forehead! Not in the forehead!
What would you be referring to?
Like a solid half of all antivaxxers are anti vax because they’re convinced that Bill Gates is putting microchips in your bloodstream to control your brain waves.
Now I miss thingsforants
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?
Just reprogram viruses (like the microbe) instead. It’s easier.
Oh, absolutely. I just mean that we appear to be headed in that direction.
I can guarantee you they wouldn’t (solely) be used for pur benefit
32-bit just won’t die!
I was just thinking that. XD
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
Maybe you just didn’t have long enough nose hair as a kid
How would you ever actually practically use this
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?
In small things. Probably not very feasible for hobby projects unless you can get it soldered on when the PCB is built.
BGA, like in the photo, isn’t the only option. There are options only slightly larger with hand-solderable packages (if you’re good at soldering)
This is already technically hand solderable with the right equipment.
In any use where size and or weight is important. For example wearables and flying drones
fly-sized spy drone
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.
You could use it as the logic board for a micro drone, something the size of a dime perhaps. Or other applications where weight or space are extremely limited. Another example might be a medical implant of some sort, this is small enough that it could be a part of a device that is meant to be placed inside an artery, or an eyeball, or an ear canal.
Wrist watch.
Looks like a micro Lego. Hell, it is a micro Lego.
This article was written by someone who only knows buzz words. They said it’s “not just the silicon(edited from silicone), but the entire microcontroller” what do they think processors have other than silicone?
Edit: silicone->silicon
They’re referencing the package as a whole, plastic casing, gold internal wiring, etc. and the silicon die in the center of it all.
This still makes no sense, because the gold wiring is a huge cost. Why dafuq wouldn’t current manufacturing encourage smaller packages? And there has been a push to make things thinner since ad memorium, so why wouldn’t they have made the die slimmer?
Edit: good to know the hive mind still exists.
You’re asking why they didn’t make the package thinner than like .1mm thick…?
Or are you commenting on some sense of surprise that someone would want to make small things, or something? If so, not sure what you’re referring to.
I’m saying there is no reason to say this microcontroller is vastly different from current products on the market.
Sure there is.
As far as I know this is the smallest full microcontroller package on the market. Which is what makes it interesting and why we are here talking about it.
Are there others?
Work on this stuff:
Thermal reasons, having enough pins and routabke pads on the board so you can land them from the package, mechanical properties (strong enough not to get squished).
We do what we do because it’s the cheapest way that covers the requirements and is still easy to assemble.
We slowly move to smaller pitches, but they’re more expensive to deal with, you need more accuracy on your pick and place and the tolerances on your pads and soldermask are smaller.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but there is no silicone at all in microprocessors but silicon.
You’re right, I don’t type that word into my phone much so the autocorrect effed me. I’ll edit for clarity.
You forgot to edit the second silicone at the end of your sentence.
I thought this headline was a Clinton joke.
