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"Chip" has become synonymous with integrated circuit, but the meaning was originally: "In electronics, a chip is comprised of semiconductor material cut from a
by jonsen 4y ago
"Chip" has become synonymous with integrated circuit, but the meaning was originally:
"In electronics, a chip is comprised of semiconductor material cut from a larger wafer of material that is only a few millimeters on one side. On this chip, a transistor or integrated circuit may be etched but only occupy one-thousandth of an inch of the chip’s surface."
- dfox 4y agoAnother variant of the original meaning is that chip is anything that can be surface mounted without additional mechanical support. Think "chip MLCC" or "chip resistor". The IBM's article on SLT seems to use "chip" in this meaning.
- jonsen 4y agoThat's the same meaning. Multiple capacitor layer elements are simultaneously imprinted as an array on a relatively large sheet of foil, and then chipped into individual elements, like silicon chips are chipped from a wafer.