chipmaker

noun

chip·​mak·​er ˈchip-ˌmā-kər How to pronounce chipmaker (audio)
: a manufacturer of integrated circuits

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The Dow Jones Industrial Averaged announced that Nvidia is replacing rival chipmaker Intel. Earl Carr, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024 Five of the six trillion-dollar tech companies reported results this week, with AI chipmaker Nvidia as the outlier. Jordan Novet, CNBC, 2 Nov. 2024 The Taiwanese chipmaker stopped shipments to Huawei in 2020. Alena Botros, Fortune Asia, 1 Nov. 2024 That means a more-carrot-than-stick approach that involves support for chipmakers and some modest oversight requirements for the most advanced AI projects, but no licensing rules or mandatory transparency requirements for training data and other details. Scott Rosenberg, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for chipmaker 

Word History

First Known Use

1971, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of chipmaker was in 1971

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“Chipmaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chipmaker. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.

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