1.〈美口〉微型集成电路片;微晶片
1.a very small piece of silicon that contains the electronic connections for making a computer work
1.He knew about Moore's law, of course, which states that the number of transistors you can put on a microchip doubles about every two years.
他了解摩尔定律，该定律认为集成电路上的晶体管数量每两年就会翻一番。
2.microchip production had been one of the pillars of its business , but high european costs and global competition persuaded it to retreat.
而作为飞利浦曾经支柱性产业之一的芯片技术，也碍于欧洲生产的高成本和全球竞争的日渐激烈而不得不放弃。
3.Thousands of new devices and products have been made possible by the existence of the microchip and by the embedded intelligence it offers.
由于有了微芯片提供的智能，我们又发明了成百上千的新设备和新产品。
4."The microchip industry depends on materials that are ultra smooth and ultra flat, " he said. "This was anything but that. "
他说：“微芯片的制作必须使用超滑超平的材料，而这是鸡毛芯片绝对达不到的。”
5.They have also made a logic element out of a pair of leech neurons (nerve cells from blood-sucking worms) placed on a microchip.
他们还用一对放在微芯片上的水蛭神经元（而神经细胞来自血吸虫）组成了一个逻辑元。
6.So the researchers borrowed from microchip technology. They created patterns on a film, much like the design for a computer chip.
研究者们借鉴了微芯片技术，他们在一种特殊薄膜上设定了细胞组合的模式，这就像在微芯片上设定程序。
7.Smart cards contain a microchip with an integrated circuit capable of processing and storing thousands of bytes of electronic data.
智能卡含有集成电路芯片的加工能力和电子数据存储数千字节。
8.The microchip and an antenna are sealed in an airtight, biocompatible capsule made of glass.
这个微型芯片和天线密封在一个密封的、不会引起排斥的玻璃制的太空舱中。
9.About the size of a grain of rice, the microchip can be encoded with bits of information and implanted in humans under a layer of skin.
该公司研制的这种芯片体积大约只有一粒大米大小，里面载入译成代码的各种信息，然后将其植入人体表皮下。
10.The introduction of iron, in some ways, had an impact a little bit like the microchip has had on our generation.
可以说，制铁术的引入所带来的影响，有点像微芯片对我们这个世代的影响。