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chip

(chip),

A small fragment resulting from breakage, cutting, or avulsion.

chip

Etymology: AS, kippen, to slice

1 n, a relatively small piece of a bone or tooth.

2 v, to break off or cut away a small piece.

3 n, a semiconductor in which an integrated circuit is embedded.

CHIP,

n.pr See Chemicals Hazard Information and Packaging for supply.

chip,

n a logic element containing electronic circuit components, both active and passive, embedded in a cohesive material of any shape.

chip blower,

n See syringe, air, hand.

Patient discussion about chip

Q. What does it means when you eat more junk (like chocalate and hot chips) than you do food? Is that good or bad chocolate hot chips pickles olives cheetos pops juice hot chips again hot chips again

A. Pickles and olives are not that junk, although they may contain high amounts of salt (sodium) that may exacerbate hypertension. Regarding the rest of the foods you listed, well, they aren't the best thing to eat- a lot of calories and fat, without satisfying your appetite.

You may read more about nutrition here:
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/nutrition.html

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Another critical step is bonding the chiplet within its pit.

The result is what amounts to a copper plug beneath the chiplet (Figure 3).

'Chiplets' create multi-species MCMs: an elegant etching and metallization process for inserting and interconnecting tiny chips

By assembling and integrating dozens of chiplets, mosaic style, on an interposer, which is like a printed circuit board writ small, all of those microsystems' functions could be performed in a much closer huddle and can perform more efficiently than if they were distributed in the usual way among a suite of chips attached to a conventional PCB.

Another big shrink: tiling chiplets into next-generation microsystems

Among the specific technologies that could emerge from this newly formed research community are compact replacements for entire circuit boards, ultrawideband radio frequency (RF) systems, which require tight integration of fast data converters with powerful processing functions, and, by combining chiplets that provide different accelerator and processor functions, fast-learning systems for teasing out interesting and actionable data from much larger volumes of mundane data.

United States : DARPAs Drive to Keep the Microelectronics Revolution at Full Speed Builds Its Own Momentum