核心畫面

A thin square of silicon smaller than a , with a whole circuit cut into its face. It is tiny and it is cheap, and the machine around it stops without it. Once that object is in mind, the verb is simply the act of putting one inside something living or something owned, so that it can answer the question who is this.

可以想成一小片比指甲還小的薄矽片,表面上刻著一整組線路。它很小、也不貴,但少了它,外面那台機器就停了。先把這個東西放更多收起可以想成一小片比指甲還小的薄矽片,表面上刻著一整組線路。它很小、也不貴,但少了它,外面那台機器就停了。先把這個東西放進腦袋裡,動詞就好懂了:動詞就是「把這樣一片放進某個活的或自己的東西裡」,讓它之後能回答「這是誰」。

From the word’s history

From micro- plus chip, a chip being a thin piece taken off something larger; here the larger thing is silicon.

來源說它是 micro-(很小)加 chip。chip 本來指從大塊東西上削下來的薄片。這裡被削下來的是矽。所以字面上就是「一小片矽」,跟今天看到的那個東西幾乎一樣。

Wiktionary etymology supplied in packet: 'From micro- + chip.' (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:988929569)

From the picture

那片矽,以及把它放進去

這一族就是畫面本身,再加上對這個東西做的那個動作。

noun · B1

A very small flat piece of silicon carrying a complete set of electronic parts, used to make computers and other machines work; the one that does a computer's thinking is often called a microprocessor.

晶片、微晶片

Also in this word

verb · C2

To break tiny pieces out of the surface of a hard material, leaving marks too small to see easily.

造成極微小的崩缺