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“Chip” is actually a term of art in the industry, used to describe ‘single passives’ (such as resistors and capacitors) in small SMD packages. There are machine
by nickff 6y ago
“Chip” is actually a term of art in the industry, used to describe ‘single passives’ (such as resistors and capacitors) in small SMD packages. There are machines called “chip shooters” which are designed to place those ‘chips’.
Using the term “chip” to describe integrated circuits is amateurish.
- kryptiskt 6y agoTell that to the IEEE https://www.hotchips.org https://www.hotchips.org
- Treblemaker 6y agoPerhaps so in the context of PCB assembly. In the semiconductor industry we still call them chips. So do Micron Semiconductor [1], TSMC [2] and Intel [3] [1] https://www.micron.com/foundation/semiconductors https://www.micron.com/foundation/semiconductors [2] https://www.tsmc.com/english/dedicatedFoundry/technology/SoIC.htm https://www.tsmc.com/english/dedicatedFoundry/technology/SoI... [3] (pdf) http://download.intel.com/pressroom/kits/chipmaking/Making_of_a_Chip.pdf http://download.intel.com/pressroom/kits/chipmaking/Making_o...
- pwg 6y agoAnd the usage goes back to at least August 1975 (likely earlier): http://archive.6502.org/datasheets/mos_6501-6505_mpu_preliminary_aug_1975.pdf http://archive.6502.org/datasheets/mos_6501-6505_mpu_prelimi... "but including an on-chip clock ... in addition to the on-chip clock"
- kps 6y agoTwo unrelated papers in AFIPS '65 use ‘chip’ in their abstracts, in the integrated circuit sense, and neither draws attention to the term. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1463891.1464005 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1463891.1464005 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1463891.1463961 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1463891.1463961
- dboreham 6y agoWrong.