IBM announces the world's smallest computer, smaller size than salt grain

IBM's conference "IBM Think 2018"Has been on March 19, 2018, among which IBM revealed the existence of a computer called" the world's smallest. " This computer seems to be smaller than salt grains.

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On the fingertip of the photo is the board on which 64 motherboards are rolled on IBM Think 2018. Two computers on the left side of this board were developed computers.


Below image that puts computer on salt.


According to IBM, the cost per computer is less than 10 cents (about 10 yen), but it has hundreds of thousands of transistors and it is possible to "even monitoring, analyze, communication, even data action" Thing. Also, computers are considered to be used in block chains, which is said to detect items such as tracking and theft.

The size of the whole computer is 1 mm × 1 mm.


Also, what do you see when you approach a computer of very small size? Movie is also on the way.

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Arvind Krishna, director of IBM's laboratory, said the computer was "a beginning" and he talked about the future within the next five years that small computers as small as a computer could be attached to everyday items.