chips 1 of 2

plural of chip

chips

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of chip

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of chips
Noun
Driven by artificial intelligence demand, memory chips are in short supply, pushing prices steadily higher and triggering explosive profit growth for Micron. CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026 In the short run, the massive investment in AI data centers is contributing to higher inflation, driving up the cost of construction and memory chips. Scott Horsley, NPR, 28 Aug. 2026 Engineers instead treated the chips as a black box and studied their behavior. Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026 The deal would also help Nvidia protect its dominant position in AI chips, which has been somewhat under threat as major tech peers build out their own chips to reduce their reliance on Nvidia hardware. Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2026 Instead of flammable mulch like bark or wood chips, use lava stone or coarse gravel around any shrubbery that is within 5 feet of the structure. Sarah Perkel, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026 Because each task requires vastly different amounts of memory, data, and compute power, Dacombe argues that separate chips will actually make the AI process more efficient, as long as the chips can effectively communicate with each other. Alexandra York, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026 Qualcomm’s mid-range chips don’t get the same level of support unless OEMs pay more, so Motorola would have to commit to that on a wider range of products. ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2026 Founded in the midst of the pandemic in 2020, Rebellions is among a group of semiconductor startups designing and deploying their own chips to rival market leader Nvidia. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chips
Noun
  • The winner will receive a cash prize of $10,000 from Artemis Rising Foundation.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Offer is nontransferable, subject to availability, and has no cash value.
    The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 24 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • That line slices the plane into two halves, one of which will contain two corners of the outer triangle (the bottom half in the figure below).
    Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2026
  • You may already be accustomed to changing channels frequently since the NFL eagerly slices up its schedule across multiple networks.
    Jason Cohen, PC Magazine, 6 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Celebrity has always been commercial, and famous people have always converted attention into money.
    Laura Jung, Vogue, 25 Aug. 2026
  • For one, California’s program has that annual cap on the total amount of money that can be awarded as production incentives, a limit that does not exist in other states and countries.
    Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Consider two investors, one who invests $7,500 at the beginning of the year, and another who chops it up into $288 biweekly investments.
    Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The proposal chops $150 million from the Developmental Disabilities Administration, which battled against the largest budget cut in last year's negotiations.
    JT Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The study said the object, which left a greenish discoloration on her palate, was unlikely to be a coin, as the proportions of copper to gold did not correspond to those found in historical alloys.
    Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Assuming 20 million coins in circulation, this would imply that one bitcoin would be priced at approximately $50 million.
    Dave Birnbaum, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Starling Marte mashes one The hometown fans, who appeared to be outnumbered among the 24,225 at The K, had something to cheer in the fourth inning.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Created by Chicago painter Nathaniel Mary Quinn, the image mashes up caricatures of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ron Wood into a glorious grotesquerie that channels the colorful glam-trash aesthetics of the band’s late-’70s phase.
    Stuart Berman, Pitchfork, 13 July 2026
Noun
  • Even during the rut, Infalt shoots most of his mature bucks in the thick stuff near where deer sleep.
    Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Shopping malls across the country are roping off parking spaces closest to main entrances and food courts to make a few extra bucks.
    Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Inflation has soared above 80% and the value of the rial currency has plummeted.
    Greg Myre, NPR, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The scars of the 2008 financial crisis are still scorched into Icelandic memory, and the small national currency lends itself to volatility and inflation spirals.
    Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026

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“Chips.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chips. Accessed 29 Aug. 2026.

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