CHIP (stylized as C.H.I.P.) is a single-board computer crowd funded by now-defunct Next Thing Co. (NTC), released as open-source hardware running open-source software. It was advertised as “the world’s first $9 computer”. CHIP and related products are discontinued. NTC has since gone insolvent. Next Thing Co. was an Oakland, California based start-up company founded in 2013 by Dave Rauchwerk, Gust
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