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| microchip |
a tiny, usu. silicon, plate of semiconducting material, holding a complicated, electronic, integrated circuit, as in computers. |
| microprocessor |
the integrated circuit of a microcomputer, usu. contained on a single silicon chip. |
| motherboard |
the main printed circuit board of a personal computer, which holds chips containing the central processing unit, memory, ports, and the integrated circuits that control the keyboard and other standard peripheral devices, and to which additional circuit boards can be attached. |
| wafer |
in electronics, a small thin piece of semiconducting material on which transistors or integrated circuits are produced. [1/6 definitions] |
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