Chipster

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    A microchip manufacturer. informal

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From chip + -ster.

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