Many people are curious about the difference between chips, semiconductors and integrated circuits. Today, let's follow the editor to reveal the secrets.

Chip, also known as microcircuit, microchip, integrated circuit. It refers to a small piece of silicon containing integrated circuits, usually part of a computer or other electronic device. Chip is a general term for semiconductor component products, which is the carrier of integrated circuits and is divided into wafers. A silicon wafer is a very small piece of silicon that contains integrated circuits and is part of a computer or other electronic device.

Semiconductor refers to the material between conductors and insulators at room temperature. Semiconductors are widely used in radios, televisions, and temperature measurement. For example, a diode is a device made of semiconductors. It is a material whose electrical conductivity can be controlled, ranging from insulators to conductors. From a technological and economic development perspective, the importance of semiconductors is enormous. Today, most electronic products, such as computers, cell phones or digital recorders, are closely related to semiconductors. Common semiconductor materials include silicon, germanium, gallium arsenide, etc., and silicon is one of the most influential semiconductor materials in commercial applications.

An integrated circuit is a tiny electronic device or component. Using a certain process, components such as transistors, resistors, capacitors, inductances and other components required in the circuit are connected to a small or several small semiconductor chips or dielectric chips, and then packaged in a tube to form a circuit with the required Functional miniature structure; all components are structurally integrated, which makes electronic components a big step towards miniaturization, low power consumption, intelligence and high reliability. It is denoted by the letters IC in the circuit. The inventors of integrated circuits are germanium-based integrated circuits and silicon-based integrated circuits.

Integrated circuit technology includes chip manufacturing technology and design technology, mainly reflected in processing equipment, processing technology, packaging testing, mass production and design innovation capabilities.

A chip is a square thing that can be seen by the naked eye, however, a chip also includes various chips such as baseband, voltage conversion, etc.

The scope of integrated circuits is much broader. Even if some resistor capacitor diodes are integrated, it could be an analog signal conversion chip or a logic control chip, but in general, the concept is more low-level.

Chip is short for Integrated Circuit. In fact, the real meaning of the word chip refers to a larger semiconductor chip, the tube chip, in an integrated circuit package. Strictly speaking, chips and integrated circuits are not interchangeable. Integrated circuits are fabricated through semiconductor technology, thin film technology and thick thin film technology. Any circuit that miniaturizes some function in some form of packaged circuit can be called an integrated circuit. A semiconductor is something between a good conductor and a bad conductor (or insulator).

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