Beginner: What is a microchip really?
This is definitely not a microchip, although there are microchips soldered to it (source):



It's called a printed circuit board (PCB) or (less commonly) a printed wiring board (PWB).

The object in your picture looks like a microchip, but all we can see is a DIP-24 package. (The lack of a part number suggests that it's a stock photo, not a real product.) The integrated circuit chip itself is buried inside the package. This question has some good pictures of ICs, but this one probably shows what you're looking for:



The thing in the middle with the wires coming off of it is the integrated circuit die -- the actual "chip" of silicon. Since ICs are almost always packaged, the word "microchip" is also used to refer to packaged chips.