A fully integrated magnetic microactuator using surface micromachining techniques is presented. To achieve this device, low-resistance meander conductors located in a single plane were interwoven with multilevel meander magnetic cores. This 'wrapped' solenoid (with the core wrapped around the conductor) was fabricated in a fully integrated fashion. A magnetic microactuator was realized by incorporating a surface micromachined nickel-iron cantilever beam as part of the magnetic circuit of the core. The nickel-iron cantilever beam was 2.5 micrometers thick, 25 micrometers wide, and 780 micrometers long, and the magnetic circuit contained 17 turns of meander-type solenoid coils.