Please Explain: Microchips

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Happy 50th birthday to the microchip! On Please Explain, find out how microchips work, what they do for us in our everyday lives, and how far they’ve come since they were first introduced 50 years ago. Dr. Simha Sethumadhavan is Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Director of the Computer Architecture Laboratory at Columbia University; Steven Levy is Senior Writer for Wired magazine.

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