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silicon chip

British  

noun

  1. another term for chip

"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

silicon chip Cultural  

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In a new study published in Nature Electronics, a Harvard led research team unveiled a silicon chip capable of synthesizing 64 different DNA sequences at the same time.

From Science Daily Jul. 9, 2026

Cerebras focuses on a product known as the Wafer-Scale Engine: a square silicon chip that is far bigger than most modern AI processors at roughly the size of a children’s picture book.

From The Wall Street Journal May 14, 2026

Pynchon is so prophetic, he looked at California in 1966 and already saw a silicon chip.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 9, 2026

Qualcomm’s content share in Samsung’s fall 2026 Galaxy models will drop to 75% from 100%, BofA noted, while Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has dedicated $7 billion to internal silicon chip research.

From Barron's Mar. 10, 2026

And with every year, the silicon chip grows smaller, faster, and cheaper yet.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce

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