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A new microcomputer has been created by researchers at the University of Michigan. The millimeter-scale computing system can store up to a week volume of data and can reside on something as small as a human eye. The computer, called the Phoenix chip, is just over one cubic millimeter in size and was designed to monitor eye pressure in glaucoma patients.

"This is the first true millimeter-scale complete computing system," Dennis Sylvester, a professor at the school and one of the researchers on the project, said in a statement.

A $5 billion high-end microchip factory will be built by Intel Corp in Arizona by the year of 2013 as the world’s largest chip maker wants to boost up the US manufacturing capacity.

Intel said in a statement that the construction should start this year and when completed the plant will make next-generation 14-nanometer line-width transistors and microchip wafers of 300 millimeters.

Earlier last year Intel said that it plans to spend $6 billion to $8 billion on high-tech manufacturing facilities in Arizona and Oregon, creating as many as 8,000 construction jobs.

A Saudi inventor has offered a new technology – a microchip placed under the person’s skin. The scientist has applied German Patent Office to patent his technology that implies inserting a microchip under the skin of people so their whereabouts could be tracked by global-positioning satellites. The chip can be implemented or injected. This microchip can be a great solution in question of illegal immigrants or people overstaying in some country, reports Right Truth.