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[Maursault]

It isn't voltage regulators and ICs. The poster that said so just made that up. It's computer chips.

[deathanatos → Maursault]

> It isn't […] ICs. […] It's computer chips.

"Chip" is the layman term for an integrated circuit, or IC.

[Maursault → deathanatos]

I did not realize this. I thought a computer chip, meaning a CPU, was distinct from the IC on which it was implemented. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

[deathanatos → Maursault]

In case you don't want just my word on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Computer_chip&redirect=no ; the first paragraph of the linked page for ICs notes it, as well.

[Maursault → deathanatos]

So IC = CPU and vice versa? They are synonyms?

Socrates was a man. I am a man. I am Socrates.

[lazide → Maursault]

Voltage regulators and ICs are often chips.

[Maursault → lazide]

So are potato chips, that doesn't make them CPUs. This is called a category error.

[lazide → Maursault]

No, potato chips are not ‘chips’ in this context.

CPUs are a type of IC, commonly known as a ‘chip’ in this context. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit]

That’s called ‘not knowing what the definition of something is’.

[Maursault → lazide]

ICs aren't necessarily CPUs.

[lazide → Maursault]

But all CPUs are ICs - and hence chips.

Also, there are many voltage regulator ICs (and hence chips), and a great many other ICs (and hence chips) used in pretty much every piece of electronic equipment now a days.

Motor controllers, microprocessors, etc.

Literally even children’s stuffed toys have them.