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To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.
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To break or fly off in small pieces.
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A fragment or piece broken off; a small piece.
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a tiny piece of silicon with electronic circuits. The chip is the most important part of the computer.
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A thin silicon wafer that contains integrated electronic circuits. Chips perform many computer functions including serving as the computer memory.
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microchip: a small piece of semi-conductor (usually silicon) used to carry electronic circuits.
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Integrated circuit; a multi-pinned device consisting of many circuits encapsulated in plastic.
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Common name for sensor, actually a silicon wafer with circuit paths etched or printed in layers.
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Common term for very small silicon wafers upon which electronic circuits have been created for use in computers. Used for microprocessors, electronic memory, and other internal computer electronic components.
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Also known as "Microchip." It is a very small slice of semiconducting material, usually square, on which a transistor or an entire IC is formed. It is cut from a large wafer of the same material.
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Also called a die. Popular term describing a section of a wafer that contains a discrete component
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The location on a piece where a small portion of porcelain or ceramic has been broken off.
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An integral part of the PC. These are very tiny, square or rectangular slivers of material (usually silicon) with electrical components built in. Some of the chips in a computer aid in memory, but the most important chip is the microprocessor. This is the "8088", "286", "386", or "486" that is referred to when talking about a specific machine's features.
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A thermistor configuration derived from cutting out small pieces from a much larger flat square thermistor billet.
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See DIE
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(sc) die or device, one of the individual integrated circuits or discrete devices on a wafer.
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thin silicon wafer on which electronic components are deposited
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A small silicon wafer containing thousands of microscopic components.
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Piece out of face of sleeve
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a piece of dried bovine dung
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a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something
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break a small piece off from; "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth"
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a die made of doped semi-conducting material in a plastic casing
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a flat silicon rectangle upon which a semiconductor element has been etched
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a kind of gene analysis equipment that has high-density integration of hundreds or thousands of gene segments
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a member of Lucent's growing wireless-communications integrated circuit family and can be used for GSM, CDMA, and TDMA wireless standards
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a silicon crystal or other material that performs like a transistor, resistor, etc
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a tiny piece of silicon (the substance sand is made of) with an electronic circuit and components embedded into it
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A (possibly large) collection of related circuits designed to work together on a set of tasks. These circuits reside on a wafer of semiconductor material (typically silicon).
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A tiny device made of material such as silicon consisting of thousands of circuits and transistors that when installed in computer housing provides computer memory space for data.
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A silicon wafer with millions of tiny circuits engraved on it - what computers are made of..
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Abbreviation of Silicon Chip.
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A set of microminiaturized, electronic circuits that are designed for use as processors and memory in computers and countless consumer and industrial products.
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Small piece of semiconducting material, usually no bigger than one-half-inch square, on which integrated circuits are etched. 1.6, 4.4 CMOS, 4.21 flaws, 4.22 RAM, 4.18-20 ROM, 4.20
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A wafer element containing a complete semiconductor device circuit.
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A very small square of semi-conducting material. Also known as a "die," it is the "active" light-emitting component of an LED.
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They may be small, but chips—made of silicon, hence the Silicon Valley—pack quite a punch; these miniature electric circuits store millions of bits of information.
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wafer of silicon containing miniature electric circuits that can store millions of bits of information.
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An integrated circuit (e.g. for use in a payment card).
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The individual device, or integrated circuit, cut from a semiconductor wafer.
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An integrated circuit in which all the components are micro-fabricated on a tiny piece of silicon or similar material. Chroma crawl. An artifact of encoded video, also known as dot crawl or cross-luminance, Occurs in the video picture around the edges of highly saturated colors as a continuous series of crawling dots and is a result of color information being confused as luminance information by the decoder circuits.
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An alternative name for an integrated circuit.
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An integrated circuit. A thin piece of silicon that contains all of the components of an electric circuit.
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The electronic chip consists of an integrated circuit and a capacitor that is attached to two ends of a coil.
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See Integrated circuit.
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Another term for an integrated circuit, microchip or semiconductor.
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The transition time for individual bits in the pseudo-random sequence. Also, an integrated circuit. Also a snack food. Also a betting marker.
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A rectangular piece of a semiconductor material such as silicon in which are formed all the electronic components of an integrated circuit and its interconnections.
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The uncased and normally leadless form of an electronic component part, either passive or active, discrete or integrated. Also referred to as a die.
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Common term for a computer integrated circuit.
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The length of time to transmit either a "0" or a "1" in a binary pulse code. Also, an integrated circuit.
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Commonly used to refer to integrated circuits used as components in computers, telephone systems, etc.  In actuality, it is the physical structure upon which the integrated circuits are fabricated.
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A wafer of semiconductor material used in an electronic circuit.
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An integrated circuit; The transition time for individual bits in the pseudo-random sequence.
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Slang expression for a very small component or an integrated circuit.
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This is the physical structure of an integrated circuit.
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hardware: That truly amazing and remarkably tiny piece of silicon that has an entire electronic circuit embedded in its surface.
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A microelectronic device that will form part of a functional electronic circuit within an electronic product.
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Popular name for an integrated circuit.
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An individual integrated circuit that has not yet been packaged. Also used as a generic term for semiconductor devices.
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A piece of silicon etched with an electronic circuit.
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Slang for integrated circuit; it is used for a packaged die.
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An individual integrated circuit built in a tiny, layered square on a silicon wafer.
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A common synonym for an integrated circuit, usually the one used for the main processor. Return
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a very small piece of silicon containing an electronic circuit.
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Another name for Integrated Circuit or the piece of silicon on which semiconductors are created.
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An integrated circuit usually made of silicon that contains a very large number of electronic components. The chip is the "brains" of the computer.
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Chip refers to the tiny circuit board that performs the functions and calculations that make your computer run. A chip is also referred to as the CPU or the processor. Common types of processors include Pentiums and Celerons. Source: TechSoup.org
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electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit. http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn2.1?s=silicon+chip