microchippery

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

microchip +‎ -ery

Noun[edit]

microchippery (uncountable)

  1. (informal) The use of microchips; microchips generally.
    • 1988, Popular Photography (volume 95, numbers 1-3)
      Internally, the new autofocus SLRs are loaded with solid-state microchippery and flexible circuit boards []
    • 2012, Larry Beinhart, You Get What You Pay For:
      It was a miracle of modern microchippery. It had a digital readout across the top, in red, that told him the number from which the incoming call was being made, provided the dialer punched the right code.