An elemnt in the Periodic Table on the borderline between the metals and the non-metals. There is no rigorous definition- in fact there is no real agreement which elemnts should be classified as such.
No metal is semiconductor. By definition metal is conductor. There are metalloids elements. Like silicon and germanium. They are semiconductors. There is no hard and fast definition of such elements.
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Those elements are called metalloids. They have properties that are intermediate between metals and nonmetals.
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Metalloids when used is electronics are called semiconductors.