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Re:Inside the 8086 processor, tiny charge pumps create a neg... by nickff on Saturday July 25, 2020 @03:28PM (#23951726)
“Chip” is actually a term of art in the industry, used to describe ‘single passives’ (such as resistors and capacitors) in small SMD packages. There are machines called “chip shooters” which are designed to place those ‘chips’.

Using the term “chip” to describe integrated circuits is amateurish.

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Re:Inside the 8086 processor, tiny charge pumps create a neg... by Treblemaker on Saturday July 25, 2020 @04:59PM (#23952376)
Perhaps so in the context of PCB assembly. In the semiconductor industry we still call them chips. So do Micron Semiconductor [1], TSMC [2] and Intel [3]

[1] https://www.micron.com/foundation/semiconductors

[2] https://www.tsmc.com/english/dedicatedFoundry/technology/SoI...

[3] (pdf) http://download.intel.com/pressroom/kits/chipmaking/Making_o...

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Re:Inside the 8086 processor, tiny charge pumps create a neg... by pwg on Saturday July 25, 2020 @05:19PM (#23952519)
And the usage goes back to at least August 1975 (likely earlier):

http://archive.6502.org/datasheets/mos_6501-6505_mpu_prelimi...

"but including an on-chip clock ... in addition to the on-chip clock"

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Re:Inside the 8086 processor, tiny charge pumps create a neg... by kps on Saturday July 25, 2020 @10:32PM (#23953954)
Two unrelated papers in AFIPS '65 use ‘chip’ in their abstracts, in the integrated circuit sense, and neither draws attention to the term.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1463891.1464005 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1463891.1463961

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Re:Inside the 8086 processor, tiny charge pumps create a neg... by kryptiskt on Saturday July 25, 2020 @04:48PM (#23952283)
Tell that to the IEEE https://www.hotchips.org
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Re:Inside the 8086 processor, tiny charge pumps create a neg... by dboreham on Saturday July 25, 2020 @05:27PM (#23952568)
Wrong.
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