They come in different ranks which allow different levels of users to use chips.
The seven or eight players were using cash rather than chips.
The current generation of game machines use chips that process information in 64-bit chunks.
Then the player covers those numbers and the colors obtained using black chips.
But they are more useful than anything that does use chips.
They are also expected to cooperate in developing products that use such chips.
This is hard to estimate, but systems based on today's technology would use electronic chips.
A number of games use sound chips that have not yet been emulated successfully.
The 6809 and the 16/32 bit 68000 were incompatible with the instruction set of the 6800, but could use 6800-family peripheral chips.
These machines use tiny chips of ceramic which store electricity.