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[unpakwon]

Would you please explain the following in red more easily?

Starting in the late 1950s, engineers had figured out how to combine many transistors on a small slice of silicon, along with the connections between them. These new integrated circuits, or microchips, could hold chunks of memory or handle other tasks, taking over whole sections of a computer.

Does this mean "the microchips could do what a normal computer could do"?

Thank you.

[Raymott]

Would you please explain the following in red more easily?

Starting in the late 1950s, engineers had figured out how to combine many transistors on a small slice of silicon, along with the connections between them. These new integrated circuits, or microchips, could hold chunks of memory or handle other tasks, taking over whole sections of a computer.

Does this mean "the microchips could do what a normal computer could do"?

Thank you.

No, it means that the microchips could do what whole sections of a normal computer could do. "Whole sections" means complete major parts of the computer; not the whole thing.

[unpakwon]

I see.

Many thanks.