News - NXP enhances GPS with smallest available LNA

[HEXUS]

"Invisible to the naked eye" GPS component is 38 per cent smaller than competitor parts.

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[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

[cameronlite]

"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.

[Jonatron]

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.

[snootyjim]

"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.

[devBunny]

"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)