Soldering breadboard wires onto a small chip
Use a breakout board, soldering wires to something like this is very unlikely to be worth the risk, time, and debugging overhead. Particularly if you have more than one to put together.

If creating your own is not an option (it's something that could be put together in an afternoon, but it does imply a learning curve), you can generally find breakout boards for most widely used components. This is one I found with a quick Google search: