chipster

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Etymology[edit]

chip +‎ -ster

Noun[edit]

chipster (plural chipsters)

  1. (informal, computing) A microchip manufacturer.
    • Computerworld
      The PC chipsters, such as Motorola and Intel, plan to compete with themselves by shipping aggressively priced and powered reduced instruction set computing (RISC) chips.
    • 1995, SouthWest Organizing Project, Intel Inside New Mexico, page 5:
      Every two or three years, the chipsters managed to quadruple the number of transistors per chip.

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