small tech question from BE

[Joseph Tracy]

Right I understand that a silicon chip can do major stuff. But this seems to be a reference to software and the only software code that seems to be called a chip  according to wikki and in my admittedly thin grasp of the topic is what wikipedia calls CDMA chip which sounds like a small unit of code. Just curious here. 

On Sep 23, 2013, at 12:16 PM, Joseph S. Barrera III wrote:

> On 09/23/2013 07:47 AM, Joseph Tracy wrote:
>>   Can a  single chip( CDMA), inserted in software, accomplish a major complex function?  Not a geek so keep it simple please.
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> I'm not sure I completely understand the question (you can't really insert a chip into software?) and I'm not that far into BE yet, but yes, a single tiny chip can accomplish very complex functions.
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> You can put a complete cell phone on a single chip http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1184510
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> You can put a entire computer on a single chip http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_on_a_chip
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