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> Burke says the company will eventually be able to ship its own custom “silicon,” a buzzword for customized processors that make devices work better.

Silicon is not a buzzword. It is the element with which the processors are built. Perhaps it's colloquial or jargonistic to refer to processors as silicon, but it's not a buzzword.



It's synecdoche.


Or "metonym", which has almost the exact same meaning.


I didn't realize that's what synecdoche meant.

Adds some depth to the title of the movie "Synecdoche, New York"


I'm not sure depth is the thing that movie lacks. But tack on some more, sure, why not?


Thanks, that's the word I (and probably the author) was looking for.


Since we are being pedantic, how would you separate 'jargonistic' usage from a buzzword.


Hm. RISC-V processor?! That would be cool. Or it may just refer to some machine learning co-processor to be added to the Qualcomm SoC.




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