• CHIP (stylized as C.H.I.P.) was a single-board computer crowdfunded by now-defunct Next Thing Co. (NTC), released as open-source hardware running open-source...
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    A system on a chip (SoC) is an integrated circuit that combines most or all key components of a computer or electronic system onto a single microchip....
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    microprocessors used in personal computers or other general-purpose applications consisting of various discrete chips. In modern terminology, a microcontroller...
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    piece ("chip") of semiconductor material, usually silicon. Integrated circuits are used in a wide range of electronic devices, including computers, smartphones...
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  • The Super Harvard Architecture Single-Chip Computer (SHARC) is a high performance floating-point and fixed-point DSP from Analog Devices. SHARC is used...
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    of a microprocessor, together with some type of computer memory, typically semiconductor memory chips. The processing element carries out arithmetic and...
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    in a system on a chip (SoC). The modules on the IC are typically semiconductor IP cores schematizing various functions of the computer system, and are...
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    generations of computers. The single-chip microprocessor was made possible by an improvement in MOS technology, the silicon-gate MOS chip, developed in...
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  • The Clipper chip was a chipset that was developed and promoted by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) as an encryption device that secured...
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  • Neumann architecture used in conventional computers. In 2017, Intel also announced its version of a cognitive chip in "Loihi, which it intended to be available...
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    many devices, such as home computers, microcomputers, graphing calculators, mobile phones, and video game consoles. CHIP-8 has been used on a wide range...
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    microcontrollers, designing VLSI chips, analog sensors, mixed signal circuit boards, Thermodynamics and Control systems. Computer engineers are also suited for...
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    In computer science and computer engineering, computer architecture is a description of the structure of a computer system made from component parts. It...
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    Computer memory stores information, such as data and programs, for immediate use in the computer. The term memory is often synonymous with the terms RAM...
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    one chip. Intel coupled the RAM chip with the microprocessor, allowing fourth generation computers to be smaller and faster than prior computers. The...
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    Intel 4004 (redirect from Busicom Chip Set)
    The Intel 4004, was part of the 4 chip MCS-4 micro computer set, released by the Intel Corporation in November 1971. The 4004 being part of the first...
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  • The Single-Chip Cloud Computer (SCC) is a computer processor created by Intel Corporation in 2009 that features 48 distinct physical cores. These cores...
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    to the field of computer manufacturing. Moore's law, which states that the number of transistors which can be placed on a silicon chip is doubled roughly...
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    when IBM introduced the monolithic (single-chip) 16-bit SP95 SRAM chip for their System/360 Model 95 computer, and Toshiba used bipolar DRAM memory cells...
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    (commonly called "chips") out of several connected to the same computer bus, usually utilizing the three-state logic. One bus that uses the chip/slave select...
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  • Look up CHIP, Chip, chip, Chips, or chips in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chip may refer to: Chip (snack), thinly sliced and deep-fried gastro item...
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    Information Age (redirect from Computer Age)
    engineers began recognizing that a complete computer processor could be contained on a single MOS LSI chip. In 1968, Fairchild engineer Federico Faggin...
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    Microprocessor (redirect from CPU chip)
    Gilbert P, "Single chip integrated circuit computer architecture", issued 17 July 1990  Archived 25 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine "Chip Designer's 20-Year...
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  • Soviet and Russian computer systems Itanium – Family of 64-bit Intel microprocessors Movidius – American computer processor chip design company Single...
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    Flip-Chip module A Flip-Chip module is a component of digital logic systems made by the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for its PDP-7, PDP-8, PDP-9...
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    the sound chip in the Intellivision and Vectrex video game consoles, and the Amstrad CPC, Oric-1, Colour Genie, Elektor TV Games Computer, MSX, Tiki...
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    to switch Mac computers from Intel processors to Apple silicon at WWDC 2020 on June 22, 2020. The first Macs built with the Apple M1 chip were unveiled...
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  • steadily improved and by 1975 been combined with several support chips to make a one-chip computer. The 4-bit processors were programmed in assembly language...
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    immersion (where each computer is surrounded by cooling fluid) and direct-to-chip (where the cooling fluid is directed to each computer chip) can be more expensive...
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    card technology, including a microprocessor chip (computer chip) and antenna (for both power to the chip and communication) embedded in the front or back...
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