(MENAFN- Muscat Daily) Muscat- IBM has unveiled what it says is the 'world's smallest computer' at the IBM Think 2018 conference. The 1mm x 1mm chip is part of the company's '5 in 5' collection, which showcases technologies it believes will change the world over the next five years.
IBM's tiny computer is smaller than a coarse grain of salt and reportedly costs less than ten cents to manufacture. An image released by IBM shows an array of 64 motherboards, each with two computers on it.
An actual photo of a single computer on coarse grains of salt for scale
IBM's computer has a processor with up to a million transistors, SRAM memory, a photo-voltaic cell for power, and a communications unit that uses an LED and a photo-detector for external communication.
The picture above shows an array with a set of 64 motherboards, each of which holds two of the tiny computers
IBM claims the computer has the power of an x86 chip from 1990. The technology giant said the chip is built to function as a data source for blockchain applications and could also be used in shipment tracking, basic AI tasks as well as anti-counterfeitingoperations.
(Photographs source: IBM)
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