chipster
nounEtymology From chip + -ster.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Informal A microchip manufacturer.
- Computerworld The PC chipsters, such as Motorola and Intel, plan to compete with themselves by shipping aggressively priced and powered reduced instruction set computing (RISC) chips.
- Every two or three years, the chipsters managed to quadruple the number of transistors per chip.1995, SouthWest Organizing Project, Intel Inside New Mexico, page 5: