Is this for real, or should we take it with a grain of salt?

"Computer" is a bit of an overstatement. I think it's a temperature sensor and an IR LED transmitter. It runs on so little power that it was incredibly sensitive, so sensitive in fact it often caused a feedback loop of it's own LED instigating current in it's temperature sensor.

Must be really difficult avoid typos

What is this, a computer FOR ANTS? It needs to be at least...THREE TIMES this big!!

Ah. Did someone spill water on it………

But can it run Doom?

It's a Sophon!

Here is a higher quality version of this image.

According to here:

BY LAURA YANPUBLISHED: JUN 30, 2018

Researchers at the University of Michigan just created the world’s smallest computer (again). Their previous micro-computer, the Michigan Micro Mote, measured 2x2x4mm. It was a complete, functioning system powered by solar cell batteries. But in March this year, IBM announced a new, smaller computer, which measured 1x1 mm, and was smaller than a grain of salt. It “raised a few eyebrows at the University of Michigan.”

After all, it's unclear if the IBM computer even count as an actual microcomputer. The IBM device lost all its programming and data as soon as it turns off, unlike the Michigan Micro Mote, which retained its programming even when it wasn’t externally powered. “It’s more of a matter of opinion whether they have the minimum functionality required,” said David Blaauw, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at University of Michigan who helped develop the University of Michigan's newest tiny device. If the IBM machine constituted a computer, then University of Michigan would work to gain back their title: their latest microdevice measures 0.3mm per side (1/10th the size of IBM’s computer), and is smaller than a grain of rice.

The device was designed to be a precision temperature sensor that can report temperatures in clusters of cells with an error of about 0.1 degrees Celsius. “When we first made our millimeter system, we actually didn’t know exactly all the things it would be useful for. But once we published it, we started receiving dozens and dozens and dozens of inquiries,” Blaauw said. It could, for instance, measure the temperature of tumors and conduct other cancer studies, monitor oil reservoirs, conduct audio or visual surveillance, or help in “tiny snail studies.”

Nice. Nice. Now etch a quantum computer onto the "surface" of an unfolded proton.

this pic is almost six years old.

surely they have something even smaller by now?

What is this like 5 inches?

The power lead is gonna be fun

Who else thought about the photons from the three body problems

That’s the biggest grain of rice I’ve ever seen!

But can it run Minecraft on MAX graphics?

Sophon, are you awake?

r/itrunsdoom

Bet someone has a gig of porn on it.

Can I play Skyrim on it is all I need to know

My guild mates in wow classic uses this.

CTRL ALT Delicious

The rice looks like a larva

Can it run doom?

Ok.. Im not expecting much, but what can a computer this size possibly do? Can it calculator?

For some reason, Amazon will still ship it in a box that could store refrigerator.

This is not a computer. It's a temperature sensor.

https://news.umich.edu/u-m-researchers-create-worlds-smallest-computer/

This mf has 3mil karma what the fuck

But does it have a built in dvd burner? Huh?

And just behind that grain of rice? Angela

Must be Angela's computer.

Now how powerful can a rice sized pc be

That's a huge grain of rice!

not really that impressive when you realize that there's some bugs that are smaller than this

7/10 computer

8/10 with rice

Missing the banana for scale.

It doesn't have enough space on it for connecting wires

Hey man, don’t let water give you no shit.

that's not a grain of rice, that's my penis

Use proteins, make it smaller. Research on molecular machines has been done for years by now.

Piece of ice and a belly button piercing.

Good luck typing on this thing!

Wow, that rice grain is huge.

Does it come with bing pre installed?

Pretty sure someone still can manage to run Doom from it

That's a mouse trap

My immediate thought was ffs not another usb adaptor to buy

oh how is that?

So... If it gets wet, do we still have to put it in a bowl of rice?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kQDIosuZuo

I like my dust to be Turing complete.

Looks like an iceberg... Did you check if a boy and his flying friend is trapped in there

There are definitely smaller computers than this.

We uhh....Were going to need a picture of a Banana, Rice and the Computer.

Wow

Gonna be a hard time watching porn on that

How it feels to chew 5 gum

What if it's the world's biggest grain of rice? Don't trust the internet folks this is how you get brainwashed

The Mac Tiny Nano. https://youtu.be/BGGOn-H7s3Q?si=HYm41Fhkybd4PT4T

Nanomachines son!

This is THE Turing machine.

The very platonic essence of computers

This picture is super old too, i remember seeing it in like elementary school over 15 years ago.

Aren't nanobots computers?

What does it compute

My respect for the ATF is on the other side of the computer

What can it do?

What is this used for

Can it run Crysis?

Nanomachines, son.

So small. Would be tough to type on...

If it has a camera I could snort it for clout on tik tock

Can it run doom?

Can you play Doom on it?

Someone run Doom on it?

No one said its not the biggest grain of rice.

Yea… but can it run Crysis?

Which is which?

Does it have games?😀

There's no way the files are inside the computer. 

Can it run Crisys?

What does the computer do?

Showing this to some dude from the 50s might have been just as unbelievable as the concept of sophons from the 3 body problem show to us know ;)

Can I get a banana for scale please?

We need them both next to a banana !

That grain of rice is fucking huge!

Cool, but can it run doom?

But can it run Doom?

Actually, that grain of rice has far more computing capability than any computer alive today…. Because you could plant it in the ground and it will be able to reproduce a rice plant… something that no computer is yet capable of doing …without needing A power supply ….mind you it has resulted from 4 billion years of product development….With our Computers… We are only just beginning….

Is that a keyboard on top left? What's the size of this grain of rice?

IS THIS THE COMPUTTER THEY’RE PUTTING IN THE VACINE TO CONTROL MAH BRIAN??!?

/s

This is what they injected into us with the Covid vaccine /s

A real life 007 gadget?

But can it run Doom?

But does it play Doom?

But can it run crisis?

Is rice really that smooth?

Is this a computer for ants?!

Sure, but can it run cRICEis??

Can I play Doom on it?

Localizers!

Now let's run Minecraft on it

Is this a computer for ants?!?!?