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> Burke says the company will eventually be able to ship its own custom “silicon,” a buzzword for customized processors that make devices work better. Silicon
by LeifCarrotson 10y ago
> Burke says the company will eventually be able to ship its own custom “silicon,” a buzzword for customized processors that make devices work better.
Silicon is not a buzzword. It is the element with which the processors are built. Perhaps it's colloquial or jargonistic to refer to processors as silicon, but it's not a buzzword.
- mtgx 10y agoHm. RISC-V processor?! That would be cool. Or it may just refer to some machine learning co-processor to be added to the Qualcomm SoC.
- rayiner 10y agoIt's synecdoche.
- acchow 10y agoI didn't realize that's what synecdoche meant. Adds some depth to the title of the movie "Synecdoche, New York"
- diyorgasms 10y agoI'm not sure depth is the thing that movie lacks. But tack on some more, sure, why not?
- TillE 10y agoOr "metonym", which has almost the exact same meaning.
- LeifCarrotson 10y agoThanks, that's the word I (and probably the author) was looking for.
- Angostura 10y agoSince we are being pedantic, how would you separate 'jargonistic' usage from a buzzword.