Wiktionary
chiphead
n. 1 (context slang English) A microchip expert. 2 (context slang English) A person strongly interested in or knowledgeable about computer hardware.
Usage examples of "chiphead".
She'd been a chiphead years ago so she had that tendency toward electronic escapism—and she had the datajack.
A beefy ork girl was hooking on the next corner, while across the way a trio of bedraggled chipheads were begging.
Kham tried to tell himself that there were no more chipheads on the street than before, that it was just a change in the proportions of straight to chipped.