Microchip Best Information Technology in the Past Thousand Years
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In the last thousand years there have been many great technological inventions, but none greater than the microchip. Within this essay the microchip will be defined and many of its uses discussed. The two main areas where the microchip has made the greatest impact are in the computer and the Internet. Those are the main areas the microchip has affected but there are also many other products that contain the microchip. Without the microchip technology would be much different in the world today. It is not necessarily the chip itself that caused the revolution, but what came because of the chip. There was a snowball effect after the microchip was invented. Therefore since it was the chip that started the entire revolution, it should be accredited for the many pieces of technology that came after it.
The microchip or integrated circuit is inside almost anything that uses electricity and can be programmed to do tasks. The microchip is a small electronic device made out of a semiconductor material, that material is often silicone...