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Scale Week 11 芯

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Week 11 · Mon Mar 23, 2019

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Scale Week 11 芯 introduces some key concepts of chip design and fabrication, audit the Solidity compiler, peaks into the roadmap of Ethereum 2.0 and discuss the concept of decentralization.

Word of the week

芯 (xin) is core and is used in the word microchip 芯片

From grass 艹艸 and 心 (heart or middle), 芯 (xin) originally means pith from a rush. Meaning a wick or lamp pith, it is today mainly used to describe computers chip (芯片) and chipset (芯片组).

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