silicon chip

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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

   Synonymschipmicrochipmicro chipmicroprocessor chip

   Broadersemiconductor device

   Narrowerbiochipgene chipmemory chipmicroprocessor

   Part ofcomputer

   Partsintegrated circuit

Questions about silicon chip

What does silicon chip mean?

silicon chip means "electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit".

What is another word for silicon chip?

Close synonyms include chip, microchip, micro chip, microprocessor chip. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is silicon chip a common word?

silicon chip is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.