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chipmaker

noun

chip·​mak·​er ˈchip-ˌmā-kər How to pronounce chipmaker (audio)
: a manufacturer of integrated circuits

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Japan’s Tokyo Electron, which provides essential chipmaking equipment to foundries that manufacture Nvidia chips, rose more than 4%; chip equipment maker Lasertec added as much as 7%, and chipmaker Renesas Electronics advanced more than 6%. Lim Hui Jie,nur Hikmah Md Ali, CNBC, 2 Dec. 2025 Analysts had estimated that the deal could generate as much as $500 billion in revenue for the AI chipmaker. Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2025 Relations between Intel and TSMC have been fraught over the past few years as the US chipmaker tries to play catchup in the technology race. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 28 Nov. 2025 But even as Taiwan’s economy flourishes, driven by the outsized influence of its high-tech sector as exemplified by the world-beating chipmaker TSMC, many citizens have been unable to share in the boom, as income gaps widen and wages remain stagnant. John Liu, CNN Money, 28 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for chipmaker

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First Known Use

1971, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of chipmaker was in 1971

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“Chipmaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chipmaker. Accessed 11 Dec. 2025.

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