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A microchip is an electronic device built as a single unit from many miniature components mainly transistors.Microchips are made by building up electronic circuits in a tiny wafer or pure silicon in a complicated layer-by-layer process.
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∙ 12y agoThis is complicated, but I will give it a try, and let others improve upon my answer. A mircochip is a electronic circuit which is made up of basic compnents(transistors, diodes, resistors, capacitors etc) digital subsystems(adders, multipliers, memories etc)and analog subsystems (amplifiers, phase-lock loops etc) interconnected to process or change the properties of electronic signals. So, the first step is to design the electronic circuit. The second step is to break down the subsystems so that the entire circuit is expressed in terms of the basic components. The third step is to implements the basic components by layers of semi-conducting materials and by metal layers. The design is expressed in a series of masks which together define the geometries of the layers. This completes the design process. The design can then be fabricated by selective doping, etching etc using the masks.
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∙ 10y agoThe first micro chip was made of a transistor and other components on a slice of germanium. This was created by Jack Kilby at Texas Insturments in 1958.
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What are microchips made of?
Silicon mostly
What allowed computer technology to develop?
THE SILICON CHIP -The term silicon is important in the computer industry. Microchips that let computers work are made from silicon. Scientists developed the first trial silicon chip in 1958. Before that time computers were made of transistors. In 1958 scientists thought that silicon microchips were impressive because each chip could hold more than 30 transistors. Today's silicon chips often have more than a million transistors. Silicon microchips have helped make modern computer technology possible.
Moore's law states that the?
D. Processing power of microchips doubles every 18 months.
Do all Circuit boards contain microchips?
Yes they all do.AnswerNo, they don't. There are many p.c.bs which use only discrete components.
How were microchips built to go into the machines that now build microchips?
The first integrated circuit masks were hand made, then optically reduced. The wafers were then processed much as they are today using these reduced masks. Hand made masks were used well into the 1970s. All the early microprocessors were done with hand made masks. You can even download from Intel's website now masks and schematics, all hand drawn, for their original 4004.
Why is chemistry is important in communication?
To make microchips
Why are microchips made of sand?
Most sand is composed of quartz - silicon dioxide. The element silicon is used to make microchips.
What two technology is not often used to make microchips?
CMOS Tecnology
Metals used to make microchips?
They are made from silicon
What are silicons uses?
Silicon the element is used in electronicsto make microchips. Si is a semiconductor.
Would you say eight percent of the microchips is defective or eight percent of the microchips are defective?
You would say the latter. eigh percent of microchips ARE defective
What non metal is used to make microchips?
Silicon is the non-metal used to make micro-chips for computers/electronics.
Do toilets have microchips in them?
NO !
Are microchips in people brain?
no they are not
What substance is in microchips?
sillicon
For what purposes are microchips used today?
Microchips are used today as implants in living bodies to aid in tracking and identification.
What purposes are microchips used today?
Microchips are used today as implants in living bodies to aid in tracking and identification.
