silicon chip

English

Noun

silicon chip (plural silicon chips)

1. A wafer of silicon on which an integrated circuit has been built; a microchip
   • 1979, The Boomtown Rats (lyrics and music), “I Don't Like Mondays”, in The Fine Art of Surfacing:

     The silicon chip inside her head / gets switched to overload

Translations

wafer of silicon

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 矽晶片 (zh) (xījīngpiàn), 硅片 (zh) (guīpiàn)

• Finnish: piisiru (fi)
• Yiddish: סיליציום־טשיפּל (silitsyum-tshipl)

See also

• chip