| IEDM | International Electron Devices Meeting |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| ILP | Instruction-Level Parallelism |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| IPC | Instructions per Clock Cycle |
| IPR | Intellectual Property Rights |
| ISA | Instruction Set Architecture |
| ISC | International Symposium on Computer Architecture |
| ISSCC | International Solid-State Circuits Conference |
| IT | Information Technology |
| ITRI | Industrial Technology Research Institute |
| KET | Key Enabling Technologies |
| LED | Light-emitting Diode |
| MCC | Microelectronics and Computer Technology Consortium |
| MEMS | Microelectromechanical Systems |
| MICRO | International Symposium on Microarchitecture |
| MIIT | Ministry of Industry and Information Technology |
| MLP | Medium- and Long-Term Plan (2006–2020) |
| MOST | Ministry of Science and Technology |
| NANO | International Conference on Nanotechnology |
| NNIN | National Nanofabrication Infrastructure Network |
| NRC | National Research Council |
| NSF | National Science Foundation |
| ODM | Original Device Manufacturer |
| OEM | Original Equipment Manufacturer |
| OOPSLA | Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications |
| O-S-D | Optoelectronics-Sensor-Discrete |
| OSDI | Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation |
| PARLE | Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe |
| PC | Personal Computer |
| PLDI | Programming Language Design and Implementation |
| POPL | Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages |
| PPoPP | Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming |
| PwC | PricewaterhouseCoopers |
| R&D | Research and Development |
| S&T | Science and Technology |
| SC | International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis |
| Sci | Science of Science Tool |
| SEI | Strategic Emerging Industries |
| SEMATECH | Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology |
| SIA | Semiconductor Industry Association |
| SIGGRAPH | International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques |
| SoC | System-on-a-Chip |
| SOSP | Symposium on Operating Systems Principles |
| SPA&T | Semiconductor Packaging, Assembly, and Test |
| SPERC | Secure, Parallel, Evolvable, Reliable and Correct (software) |
| SRC | Semiconductor Research Corporation |
| TSMC | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company |
| VLDB | International Conference on Very Large Databases |
| WWW | International World Wide Web Conference |