chipster

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noun

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.”

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Meanings

nounchipster (plural chipsters)

plural chipsters

  1. informalcomputingA 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.

    1 more example

    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

Origin

From chip + -ster.

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Rhymes & wordplay

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APA

chipster. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chipster

MLA

“chipster.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chipster. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “chipster,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chipster.

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