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An onboard electronic control system delivers up to 500 volts to each of those actuators at a power of just 500 milliwatts.
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Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 23 Feb. 2025
The company also demonstrated a custom chip that handled an even larger logical qubit, while only occupying a tiny fraction of a square millimeter and consuming just 8 milliwatts of power.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 July 2024
Lasers sold for pointing purposes legally can’t exceed 5 milliwatts.
—Catherine Allen, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2024
Stretchable solar cells exist and are already reaching efficiencies of more than 12 percent, generating about 10 milliwatts per square centimeter outdoors.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 May 2021
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Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 23 Feb. 2025
The company also demonstrated a custom chip that handled an even larger logical qubit, while only occupying a tiny fraction of a square millimeter and consuming just 8 milliwatts of power.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 July 2024
Lasers sold for pointing purposes legally can’t exceed 5 milliwatts.
—Catherine Allen, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2024
Stretchable solar cells exist and are already reaching efficiencies of more than 12 percent, generating about 10 milliwatts per square centimeter outdoors.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 May 2021
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“Milliwatt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/milliwatt. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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milliwatt
noun
mil·li·watt
ˈmil-ə-ˌwät 
: one thousandth of a watt
—abbreviation mW
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