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The Michigan Micro Mote constitutes the first complete, operational computer system measuring as small as two millimeters across. “To be “complete,” a computer system must have an input of data, the ability to process that data – meaning process and store it, make decisions about what to do next – and ultimately, the ability to output the data.” Prof. Blaauw explained. “The sensors are the input and the radios are the output. The other key to being a complete computer is the ability to supply its own power.”

The Michigan Micro Mote contains solar cells that power the battery with ambient light, including indoor rooms with no natural sunlight, allowing the computers to run perpetually.

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A key breakthrough in the size/power matchup came with the Phoenix processor in 2008. The Phoenix processor is miniscule at 915 x 915µm2, and boasts ultra-low operating voltage and a unique standby mode that results in an average power consumption of only 500pW. (Consider that 1pW is the average power consumption of a single human cell.)

Blaauw explained why Phoenix’s extreme energy efficiency is so important: “As you shrink down in size, the percentage of the system tends to be dominated by the battery. It’s actually not hard to make chips small, but it is hard to make them low power. We could have very small chips, but we’d still end up with really large batteries.”

With the M3, engineers at Michigan are the first to accomplish energy neutrality via indoor energy harvesting in a wireless system of its size. With a 1mm2 solar cell producing 20nW, the device can harvest enough energy under ambient light to run perpetually. The device’s standby power consumption is 2nA. That’s about a million times less power than the average mobile phone consumes while on standby, or the comparative difference between the thickness of a sheet of paper and the length of a football field

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So you don't think hermaphrodites exist and doctors should stop talking about it?

I'm not convinced the ideas are mutually exclusive. Then again I know nothing about maritime law arresteddevelopment.jpg

Is a zoo just a collection of terrariums? Where you can walk between?

Turns out there are no cards in atheism.

What the fuck kind of low effort, illiterate, joking about a science headline, is this shit?

7nm node is a marketing term and non-Chinese companies have been making this chip generation since 2016.

Samsung and TSMC have been making 5nm generation chips for almost three years now.

So yes, there may be a technological/sanctions aspect to China having homegrown 7nm production but:

They are still years behind the rest of the world, it's unclear how good these 7nm chips actually are, it's unclear what their volume is, or their ability to improve further.

Read it.

To be fair to my egregious summarization he kicks off by saying life would be better if people could just build homes off the grid.

Yes, I understand oligarchy and also corporate capture. Those things are bad.

What does that have to do with friends and neighbors blaming minorities?