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Posted by andyb123 - Fri 22 Jun 2012 15:32
“on a chip that is so small, it isn’t even visible to the naked eye”

half a millimeter not visible to the naked eye? really?
a human hair is usually 0.1-0.2mm and last time I checked I can see those with the naked eye

this chip is impressively tiny yes, invisible, no
Posted by cameronlite - Fri 22 Jun 2012 16:00
andyb123
“on a chip that is so small, it isn’t even visible to the naked eye”

half a millimeter not visible to the naked eye? really?
a human hair is usually 0.1-0.2mm and last time I checked I can see those with the naked eye

this chip is impressively tiny yes, invisible, no

Agreed - marketing rubbish. If it was invisible to the human eye, I can imagine they'd have some trouble mounting the bugger to the circuit board.
Posted by Jonatron - Fri 22 Jun 2012 17:22
I've hand soldered 0402 (1.0 x 0.5 mm) components before, so yes this is very very small at 0.65x0.44x0.2 mm but very much visible.
Posted by jim - Sat 23 Jun 2012 00:54
andyb123
“on a chip that is so small, it isn’t even visible to the naked eye”

half a millimeter not visible to the naked eye? really?
a human hair is usually 0.1-0.2mm and last time I checked I can see those with the naked eye

this chip is impressively tiny yes, invisible, no

Depends if you've got the light turned on or not.
Posted by devBunny - Sat 23 Jun 2012 13:56
“on a chip that is so small, it isn’t even visible to the naked eye”

Presumably the marketer is Mr McGoo and “naked eye” means “without my glasses”. ;o)