System on a chip

A system-on-chip (short-form SoC) is a kind of electronic integrated circuit (IC or computer chip). What is special about system-on-chips is that they combine CPUs with other computers that can do things a CPU cannot do well, all on a single IC. For example, some system-on-chips have GPUs, cache memory, or video encoders. These computer parts are commonly called IP blocks (for intellectual property).^[1]

Modern electronic devices, like phones or IoT devices, use SoCs with other parts.