At the start of the 1960s, an IC rarely contained more than 5 transistors, they just couldn’t possibly fit.

在 1960 年代初，一个 IC 很少包含超过 5 个晶体管，它们根本装不下。

In the early days, an IC might only contain a simple circuit with just a few transistors, like this early Westinghouse example.

在早期，一个 IC 可能只包含一个简单的电路，只有几个晶体管，就像这个早期的西屋示例。

Released in 1971, it was the first processor that shipped as an IC, what’s called a microprocessor, because it was so beautifully small!

它于 1971 年发布，是第一款以 IC 形式发售的处理器，即所谓的微处理器，因为它非常小巧！

Today’s processors, like the A10 CPU inside Of an iPhone 7, contains a mind melting 3.3 BILLION transistors in an IC roughly 1cm by 1cm.

今天的处理器，比如 iPhone 7 中的 A10 CPU，包含一个在大约 1cm x 1cm 的 IC 中熔化 33 亿个晶体管的思想。

Here is what an IC might look like from above, with wires crisscrossing above and below each other, interconnecting all the individual elements together into complex circuits.

这是从上方看 IC 的样子，导线在彼此上方和下方交叉，将所有单独的元件互连在一起形成复杂的电路。