And each of them is powerful enough to run Doom

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.

And the microcontrollers to control the microplastics.

At what point do we become Borg

We already have micromachines in our cells

And in our mitochondria

Nanomachines, son

32-bit processor, the powerhouse of the cell

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

Now you got me remembering my 2MHz "big board" Z80 computer I put together in the 80s from a kit. First computer I ever owned. On first power-up nothing seemed to happen, then I turned up the monitor brightness and a choir of angels sang.

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

Not in the forehead! Not in the forehead!

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?

I was just thinking that. XD

https://www.ti.com/lit/ug/slau908b/slau908b.pdf?ts=1742093653289&ref_url=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.ti.com%252Ftool%252FLP-MSPM0C1104%253Fhqs%253Depd-msp-procbr-mspm0_small-pr-evm-ew5-wwe

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.

Maybe an actual useful smart ring?

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

In any use where size and or weight is important. For example wearables and flying drones

fly-sized spy drone

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.

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.

Wrist watch.