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[Small Soldiers] How is the X1000 chip able to give the toys sentience?

What sort of properties would the chip need to have to be able to do that?
gpt
I always imagined they were magic with a lovecraftian origin.  They were in a shared universe with the reanimator.  

The medium the chips were printed on was a custom formula derived from several translations of translations of stuff from the Necronomicron.  The chip's weren't that smart, but they summoned sentient spirits appropriate to whatever body they were put in. bodies.  Either the chip's materials ate their inside to make something that could be move or the spirits were able to animate them psychokinetically. 

If not, I'd imagine some kind of nanotech would be used.  You'd think they'd have mentioned it if they were using that, and it ought to take a good span of time before they animated.