What is a Microchip?

Executive Summary By Dennis Moore Hopkins

A microchip is an integrated circuit that has thousands of small capacitates and resistors. It is also known referred to as computer chip, microchip, or silicon chip.

The integrated circuits that are out now have about 2 billion transistors.

The many types of integrated circuits include analog circuit, digital circuit and mixed circuit. Digital circuits work through a process of binary mathematics. The integrate circuits that are used in cell phones are the memory-integrated circuits.

Earlier discrete circuits were used, but now integrated circuits are preferred because of their lower cost and performance. Since components of the circuit are printed using photolithography, integrated circuits do not cost much to manufacture.

When you look into circuits according to classification, the various classification forms are Small-scale integration (SSI), Medium-scale integration (MSI), Large-scale integration (LSI), and Very large-scale integration (VLSI).