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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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