Electronics - microchip, microchips, chips

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• silicon = Si, semiconductor = Common semiconductor used in manufacture of digital "silicon chips" or "microchips" such as CPUs, memory (RAM, ROM, DRAM, EPROM, EEPROM, Flash, etc), and simpler/analogue devices such as amplifiers and individual bipolar transistors or FETs or diodes. Note that other semiconductors such as Germanium (Ge) and Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) can be used to make devices with different characteristics cf silicon equivalents such as higher speed in return for higher leakage.
• silicon chip = microchip, microchips, chips = A single device from a lone one-junction bipolar diode/rectifier up to a billion-transistor MOSFET (eg CMOS FET) CPU or memory, fabricated from the semiconductor element silicon with appropriate doping and masking, often on a silicon wafer.

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