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The Second World War and the Cold War caused similar bursts in invention, creating nuclear power, radar, wonder drugs, computers, satellites, microchips, Moon landings, GPS, and much more.—David Szondy
may 02, New Atlas, 2 May 2026 Although viewing captions still required a separate closed caption decoder in 1980, a decade later a partnership between NCI and ITT Corporation would lead to the development of the first caption-decoding microchip.—Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Apr. 2026 The shelter encouraged people who find stray dogs to make other arrangements to find their owners, such as posting fliers or taking them to a veterinarian to be scanned for a microchip.—Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 28 Apr. 2026 Memory companies are experiencing major gains from a global shortage for microchips to power artificial intelligence.—Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 27 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for microchip