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It isn't voltage regulators and ICs. The poster that said so just made that up. It's computer chips.
by Maursault 4y ago
It isn't voltage regulators and ICs. The poster that said so just made that up. It's computer chips.
- lazide 4y agoVoltage regulators and ICs are often chips.
- Maursault 4y agoSo are potato chips, that doesn't make them CPUs. This is called a category error.
- lazide 4y agoNo, potato chips are not ‘chips’ in this context. CPUs are a type of IC, commonly known as a ‘chip’ in this context. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit] That’s called ‘not knowing what the definition of something is’.
- Maursault 4y agoICs aren't necessarily CPUs.
- lazide 4y agoBut all CPUs are ICs - and hence chips. Also, there are many voltage regulator ICs (and hence chips), and a great many other ICs (and hence chips) used in pretty much every piece of electronic equipment now a days. Motor controllers, microprocessors, etc. Literally even children’s stuffed toys have them.
- deathanatos 4y ago> It isn't […] ICs. […] It's computer chips. "Chip" is the layman term for an integrated circuit, or IC.
- Maursault 4y agoI did not realize this. I thought a computer chip, meaning a CPU, was distinct from the IC on which it was implemented. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
- deathanatos 4y agoIn case you don't want just my word on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Computer_chip&redirect=no https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Computer_chip&redirect=no ; the first paragraph of the linked page for ICs notes it, as well.
- Maursault 4y agoSo IC = CPU and vice versa? They are synonyms? Socrates was a man. I am a man. I am Socrates.