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[-] Changer098@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 18 hours ago
[-] tonytins@pawb.social 7 points 18 hours ago

I was just thinking that. XD

[-] notgold@aussie.zone 14 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Strobelt@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Maybe you just didn't have long enough nose hair as a kid

[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 164 points 1 day ago

The future: we have replaced the microplastic in our blood with microcontrollers

[-] Strobelt@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

32-bit processor, the powerhouse of the cell

[-] dch82@piefed.social 71 points 1 day ago

And each of them is powerful enough to run Doom

[-] geomela@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

So right at the end?

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

So you are saying once it gets into your bloodstream you are doomed?

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 19 hours ago

in every meaning of the word

[-] P1nkman@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

I live in Denmark, work in a location with about 120 people. Two of them believe this, and there is a third one who's a massive Trump fan. I try to not interact with them.

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

I'm sure they have interesting things to say about the covid vaccines.

[-] Flagstaff@programming.dev 10 points 1 day ago

about ~~the covid~~ vaccines.

There, all fixed now.

[-] DaveyRocket@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

And the microcontrollers to control the microplastics.

[-] Slovene@feddit.nl 8 points 1 day ago

And the microcontrollers will be charged by mitochondria.

[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

The powerhouse of the cell??

[-] tonytins@pawb.social 5 points 1 day ago

Would you like gray goo with that?

[-] HiTekRedNek@lemm.ee 3 points 20 hours ago

Yes please. Can't be much worse than what we have now.

At what point do we become Borg

[-] mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

and it has started already! didn't you hear about the covid vaccine!!!

[-] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] Flagstaff@programming.dev 31 points 1 day ago

Nanobots of 90's sci-fi, here we finally come!

[-] Dayroom7485@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

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?

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 5 points 19 hours ago

I can guarantee you they wouldn't (solely) be used for pur benefit

[-] Flagstaff@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago

Oh, absolutely. I just mean that we appear to be headed in that direction.

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 70 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"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)

[-] xorollo@leminal.space 1 points 19 hours ago

I thought this headline was a Clinton joke.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 87 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

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

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

HDMI

I don't believe it has enough RAM for any real video, among other things.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 63 points 1 day ago

This is making the Republicans so nervous.

[-] Albbi@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Not in the forehead! Not in the forehead!

[-] EffortlessEffluvium@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Looks like a micro Lego. Hell, it is a micro Lego.

[-] Inf_V@kbin.earth 7 points 1 day ago

How would you ever actually practically use this

[-] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 36 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] Lumberjacked@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] 474D@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Maybe an actual useful smart ring?

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In small things. Probably not very feasible for hobby projects unless you can get it soldered on when the PCB is built.

[-] MartianSands@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

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)

[-] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

This is already technically hand solderable with the right equipment.

[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 7 points 1 day ago

fly-sized spy drone

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Wrist watch.

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