{"id":252931,"date":"2018-03-20T09:45:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T07:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=252931"},"modified":"2018-03-20T09:46:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T07:46:49","slug":"ibm-reveals-the-worlds-smallest-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/252931-ibm-reveals-the-worlds-smallest-computer.html","title":{"rendered":"IBM reveals the world&#8217;s smallest computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IBM has unveiled the world&#8217;s smallest computer at its IBM Think 2018 conference, <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/2018\/03\/19\/ibm-worlds-smallest-computer\/#asJWmMqKkgqN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Mashable<\/strong><\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The 1mm x 1mm chip is part of the company&#8217;s &#8220;5 in 5&#8221; collection, which showcases technologies it believes will change the world over the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>IBM&#8217;s tiny computer is smaller than a coarse grain of salt and reportedly costs less than $0.10 to manufacture.<\/p>\n<p>The headline image shows an array of 64 computer chips, each with a motherboard.<\/p>\n<p>IBM said the chip is built to function as a data source for blockchain applications and could see uses in shipment tracking and basic AI tasks.<\/p>\n<p>The company did not announce when the computer would be released.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/245882-facebook-appoints-former-ibm-executive-as-head-of-ai-group.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Facebook appoints former IBM executive as head of AI group<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM has unveiled the world&#8217;s smallest computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":252933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[45494,835,3718,49547],"class_list":["post-252931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-blockchain-technology","tag-ibm","tag-prototype","tag-smallest-computer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252959,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252931\/revisions\/252959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}