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A fingernail of silicon doing the thinking your brain refuses to.
means A tiny slab of semiconductor packed with millions of microscopic circuits that process or store information.
from From Greek mikros (small) plus chip, a literal flake — fitting, since the first ones were sliced from silicon wafers in the late 1950s.
Birth yearInvented in 1958 by Jack Kilby.
Transistor countModern chips pack tens of billions in.
ScaleFeatures now smaller than a single virus.
Sand originBuilt mostly from purified beach silicon.