This new TI control is the size of the black pepper peel

Texas Instruments says it has shrunk the smallest control unit in its manufacture with new MCU the size of black pepper peel.

The MCU package is only 1.38 millimeter and is part of the company’s arm cortex line from integrated designs. Ti says the product aims to small products including medical devices, ear headphones, pen pens and electric toothbrush. The product includes a 12 bits a representative transformer to my number It contains 16 km of flash memory and 1 kilogram of SRAM and works on 24 MHz.

The small device is known as MSPM0C1104. Unfortunately, this is attractive as it happens (there is no pepperpower for this piece of technology).

Ti says that MicroController costs 20 cents per unit of 1000, which means that the company can get an army of robots for up to $ 200. TI displays this and other MCU (not related to devices) in The world guaranteed 2025 In Nuremberg, Germany.

Opens opportunities

William LockeThe Quandary Peak Research Technology and expert said that MCU Drinkage opens opportunities in areas where miniature devices have not been possible before.

“One of the important feuds of small renovations is in the field of health and surgical care: smart pill, compact sensors, or even surgical devices that can reach unprecedented places.”

Locke also said that innovation may be sufficient to transfer Texas tools to up to the McU Series currently dominated by Electronics StMicroelectronics, Infineon, NXP, Microchip and Renesas.

“With the new Ti Mcu, we can see a new category of superior small actions not only target consumers, but commercial uses (such as health care). But there are also challenges such as governmental approval (for medical devices). The manufacture of these new small devices may be difficult.”

revision: A previous version of this story mentioned incorrectly a controlled cost. It costs 20 cents per unit.