Microchips, also known as integrated circuits (ICs), are the building blocks of modern electronics. They are composed of semiconductor materials, typically silicon, which house billions of transistors in a compact space. These transistors act as the fundamental switches that enable the complex processing tasks of your mobile phones and computers.
The evolution of microchips dates back to the 1950s, when Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments and Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor International Inc. independently developed the first integrated circuits. These early microchips revolutionised electronics by allowing for the miniaturisation of circuits, paving the way for the modern computing era.
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