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Perhaps so in the context of PCB assembly. In the semiconductor industry we still call them chips. So do Micron Semiconductor [1], TSMC [2] and Intel [3]

And the usage goes back to at least August 1975 (likely earlier):

http://archive.6502.org/datasheets/mos_6501-6505_mpu_prelimi...

"but including an on-chip clock ... in addition to the on-chip clock"

Two unrelated papers in AFIPS '65 use ‘chip’ in their abstracts, in the integrated circuit sense, and neither draws attention to the term.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1463891.1464005 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1463891.1463961

Tell that to the IEEE https://www.hotchips.org

Wrong.