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What is the difference between a chip and an integrated circuit?
has a different focus.
Chip is a chip, which generally refers to something that you can see with the naked eye that is covered with many small feet or that you can't see with your feet, but is obviously square. However, the chip also includes a variety of chips, such as baseband, voltage conversion, and so on. The processor emphasizes more on function, which refers to the unit that performs processing, which can be said to be MCU, CPU, etc.
The range of integrated circuits (M95M01-RMN6TP) is much wider. Even if some resistors, capacitors and diodes are integrated together, it is an integrated circuit. It may be an analog signal conversion chip or a logic control chip, but in general, This concept is more biased towards the underlying things.
"Integrated circuit" means that the active devices, passive components and their interconnections that make up the circuit are fabricated on a semiconductor substrate or on an insulating substrate together to form a structurally closely connected, internally related instance electronic circuit. It can be divided into three main branches: semiconductor integrated circuits, film integrated circuits, and hybrid integrated circuits. Chip (chip) is the general term for semiconductor component products. It is the carrier of integrated circuit (IC), which is divided into wafers.
What is the relationship and difference between semiconductor integrated circuits and semiconductor chips?
Chip is an abbreviation of integrated circuit. In fact, the real meaning of the word chip refers to a little bit of a large semiconductor chip inside the integrated circuit package, that is, the die. Strictly speaking, chips and integrated circuits cannot be interchanged. Integrated circuits are manufactured through semiconductor technology, thin film technology, and thick film technology. Any circuit with a certain function is miniaturized and then made in a certain packaged circuit form, it can be called an integrated circuit. A semiconductor is a substance between a good conductor and a non-good conductor (or insulator). Semiconductor integrated circuits include semiconductor chips and peripheral related circuits.
【Semiconductor integrated circuits】
Semiconductor integrated circuit is a combination of active components such as transistors, diodes, and passive components such as resistors and capacitors, which are interconnected according to a certain circuit and "integrated" on a single semiconductor chip to complete a specific circuit or system function.
【Semiconductor chip】
Semiconductor devices that can realize a certain function by etching and wiring on the semiconductor sheet. Not only silicon chips, common ones include gallium arsenide (gallium arsenide is toxic, so don’t be curious to decompose it for some low-quality circuit boards), germanium and other semiconductor materials. Semiconductors are also trending like cars. In the 1970s, American companies such as Intel had the upper hand in the dynamic random access memory (D-RAM) market. However, because of the emergence of mainframe computers, Japanese companies were among the best in the 1980s when high-performance D-RAM was required.
