{"id":8960,"date":"2018-07-04T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=8960"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:52","slug":"worlds-smallest-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/07\/04\/worlds-smallest-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"U-M researchers create world\u2019s smallest computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8961\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8961\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8961\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/42889296112_627126b989_k-1024x683-e1530644546502.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Device next to a grain of rice&quot;\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8961\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Device next to a grain of rice. (Michigan News)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> team of researchers from U-M have\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">created <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.umich.edu\/u-m-researchers-create-worlds-smallest-computer\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a computing device that is 0.3 mm<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, many times smaller than a grain of rice. That beats IBM&#8217;s March claim of creating the world&#8217;s smallest computer.\u00a0<\/span>However, unlike most existing devices\u2014which retain their programming and data even when they are not externally powered\u2014these new microdevices from IBM and now Michigan lose all prior programming and data as soon as they lose power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not sure if they should be called computers or not. It\u2019s more of a matter of opinion whether they have the minimum functionality required,\u201d said <strong>David Blaauw<\/strong>, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, who led the development of the new system together along with ECE colleagues <strong>Dennis Sylvester<\/strong> and <strong>Jamie Phillips<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite its tiny size, the system is very flexible and could be reimagined for a variety of purposes. In this instance, the team designed the microdevice as a precision temperature sensor because of a need in cancer research that relies on gauging temperature in tumors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers from U-M have\u00a0created a computing device that is 0.3 mm, many times smaller than a grain of rice. That beats IBM&#8217;s March claim of creating the world&#8217;s smallest computer.\u00a0However, unlike most existing devices\u2014which retain their programming and data even when they are not externally powered\u2014these new microdevices from IBM and now Michigan lose all\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/07\/04\/worlds-smallest-computer\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[130],"class_list":["post-8960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-research"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/42889296112_627126b989_k-1024x683-e1530644546502.jpg",600,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/42889296112_627126b989_k-1024x683-125x83.jpg",125,83,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/42889296112_627126b989_k-1024x683-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/42889296112_627126b989_k-1024x683-768x512.jpg",665,443,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/42889296112_627126b989_k-1024x683-700x467.jpg",600,400,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/42889296112_627126b989_k-1024x683-e1530644546502.jpg",600,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/42889296112_627126b989_k-1024x683-e1530644546502.jpg",600,400,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/42889296112_627126b989_k-1024x683-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/42889296112_627126b989_k-1024x683-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/42889296112_627126b989_k-1024x683-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/42889296112_627126b989_k-1024x683-665x444.jpg",665,444,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/42889296112_627126b989_k-1024x683-e1530644546502.jpg",375,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"A team of researchers from U-M have\u00a0created a computing device that is 0.3 mm, many times smaller than a grain of rice. That beats IBM&#8217;s March claim of creating the world&#8217;s smallest computer.\u00a0However, unlike most existing devices\u2014which retain their programming and data even when they are not externally powered\u2014these new microdevices from IBM and now&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8960"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9083,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960\/revisions\/9083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}