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chipset

British  
/ ˈtʃɪpsɛt /

noun

  1. a highly integrated circuit on the motherboard of a computer that controls many of its data transfer functions

  2. computing the main processing circuitry on many video cards

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The device would use a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset, they said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

Despite having “great chipset and modem technology,” that multiple has been compressed to 10x, he noted.

From MarketWatch Nov. 5, 2025

The heart of the Mate 60 Pro, which was subsequently obtained, dismantled and analyzed by global tech media, is a 7-nanometer chipset, the Kirin 9000S, made by China’s Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, or SMIC.

From Washington Times Sep. 6, 2023

The Quest 3 also will have a new Qualcomm chipset with twice the graphics performance, Zuckerberg said, and promised more details at the company's virtual reality conference in September.

From Reuters Jun. 1, 2023

It uses a MediaTek Dimensity 8100 chipset with 8GB of RAM and includes 256GB of storage.

From The Verge Aug. 31, 2022

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