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A

A15 Bionic chip AC Input Access Point Access time (Read/Write)Accounting machine Action Camera Active PFC Activity Tracker Adaptive-Sync Technology Add-In Card (AIC)ADF AES Encryption AFMF AFR Agentic AI AH-IPS AHCI AI Accelerator AI Agent AI Computing AI Inference AI Model AI Overview AI PC AI PC Processor AI Search AI Training AIB Partner Card AIO Pump Header Air CPU Cooler Air mouse Airpods Alphanumeric Keys Altair AM4 AM5 Amazon Echo Amazon Fire TV/Stick Ambient Occlusion AMD EPYC AMD Processor Suffixes AMD Radeon AMD Radeon FreeSync AMD Radeon Pro Series AMD Radeon RX Series AMD RDNA AMD RDNA 2 AMD RDNA 3 AMD RDNA 4 AMD Ryzen AMD Threadripper Amiga Amplifier AMVA Analytical engine ANC Anisotropic Filtering Anti-Aliasing Antikythera mechanism Aperture Apple Bionic Chip Apple M-Series Chip Apple silicon Apple TV APU (Accelerated Processing Unit)Arc Mouse Architecture ARDF ARGB Header ARM / ARM64 Artificial Intelligence (AI)Aspect Ratio Atari ST ATX ATX 3.0 ATX 3.1 ATX Power Supply Audio Bit Rate Audio Compression Audio Converter Audio Encoding Format

C

Cache Caddy Camcorder Camera Lens (Prime, Zoom, USM, STM, OSS)CAMM CAMM2 Capacitor Capacitor (Japanese Capacitors)Card Reader CardBus Cardioid Case fan Cat-6 Cat-6 Keystone Jack Cat-7 CCD / Core Complex Die Channel Support Chatbot ChatGPT Checkpoint Model Cheque Scanner Chiplet Chiplet GPU Chipset Choke Chromebit Chromebook Chromebox CL (CAS Latency)Claude Click to Do Clock Speed CMOS CMOS Battery CMR Coaxial Audio Cold boot Cold swap Color Bit Depth (Color Bit / Bit Depth)Color Depth Color Gamut Color Space Color/Monochrome Printer Colossus ComfyUI Command Rate (CR)Commodore CompactFlash Compute Unit Computer fan Computer form factor Computer Vision Computometer Condenser Microphone Connector Genders Context Window Continuous Power Contrast Ratio (TCR/DCR)Controller ControlNet Cooler pad Core Compute Die / CCD Core i3 Core i5 Core i7 Core i9 Core Ultra CPU CPU Architecture CPU Bottleneck CPU Cache CPU Core CPU Die CPU Fan Header CPU Generation CPU Power Limit CPU Rendering CPU Socket CPU Temperature CPU Thermal Throttling CPU Voltage Crossload Performance CSIRAC CSM CUDA CUDA Core Curved Screen Custom GPU Cybenetics Cylinder

J

JEDEC Joy Con Joystick JPEG

K

kbps Keyboard Keyboard Keys Keyboard Switches Knowledge Distillation

M

M.2 M.2 22110 M.2 2230 M.2 2242 M.2 2260 M.2 2280 M.2 Slot MAC address Machine Learning (ML)Maintenance Box Male/Female Connector Male/Female Port Manchester Babyc Manchester Mark 1 Mechanical Keyboard MediaTek Dimensity Megapixels Membrane Keyboard Memory Memory Bandwidth Memory Bank Memory Bus Memory Channels Memory Clock Memory Controller Memory Density Memory Frequency Memory Module Memory Overclocking Memory Rank Memory Stick Memory Training Mesh Shader Mesh Technology MHz (Megahertz)Micro-ATX Microarchitecture MicroLED Microphone Microprocessor MicroSD UHS-I MicroSD UHS-II MicroSD UHS-III Microsoft Copilot Microsoft Copilot+MIMO Technology Mini DisplayPort Mini-ITX Mini-LED Mirrorless Mistral Mixture of Experts (MoE)MKV Mobile SoC Model Quantization Modern GUI BIOS Modifier and Control Keys Molex Connector Monaural Speaker Monolithic CPU Monolithic GPU Monthly Print Capacity MOSFET Motherboard Motion Blur Motion controller Motion Detection Motion Sensor Mouse Mouse Buttons Mouse DPI MP3 MP4 MPEG-4 MPRT MSAA MT/s (Megatransfers per second)MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)MU-MIMO Technology Multi Rail PSU Multi-Core Performance Multi-Core Processor Multi-Monitor Setup Multi/Single Function Printer Multimodal AI Multiphase cooling Multiplayer MVA

P

P-Cores / E-Cores Paper Feeder Paper Roll Core Inner/Outer Diameter Parallel access Parallel computer Parallel execution Parallel interface Parallel port Parallel transmission Parameter Pascaline Passive Cooling PSU Passive Noise Isolation (PNI)Passive PFC Patch Cord Path Tracing PC Card PC Card slot PCB PCH PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect)PCIe 5.0 PCIe 5.0 Power Connector PCIe 5.1 Power Standard PCIe Extension Cable PCIe Gaming Sound Card PCIe Gen 3 PCIe Gen 4 PCIe Gen 5 PCIe Gen 6 PCIe Lane PCIe Power Connector PCIe slots PCIe x16 PCMCIA PDA PDF Peak Current Pen drive Performance Per Watt Personal AI PGA (Pin Grid Array)Phablet Phi Pico-ITXf Pixel Fill Rate Pixel Persistence Pixel Shader PL1 PL2 Platter PlayStation PLED Plug and Play (PnP /Plug & Play / Plug and play)PMR PNG Polar Patterns PON Portable computer POS Printer POST Power Connectors Power cycle Power Factor (PF)Power Good (PWR_OK) Signal Power Phase Power Supply (PSU)Power Supply Environmental Rating Power Supply Grounding Power Supply Mounting Power Supply Operating Temperature Power Supply Unit PRAM Preamplifier Precision Boost Precision Boost Overdrive / PBO Print Head Print Speed / Resolution Printer Privacy Shutter Private AI Processor Processor Base Frequency Processor Core Processor TDP / CPU TDP Processor Thread Prompt Prompt Engineering PS1 PS2 PS3 PS4 PS5 Pseudo-SLC Cache PSP Punch card Punch tape PWM Header

Q

QD-OLED QHD QLC NAND QSXGA Quad Channel Memory Quad-Core Quad-Level Cell Qualcomm Snapdragon Queue Depth QVL Qwen QXGA

S

Sample Rate Samsung Exynos SATA SATA III (6Gb/s)SATA Port SATA Power Connector SATA SSD Satellite Speaker Scanner Screen Space Reflections Scroll wheel SD Card SD Express SDC VA SDHC Card SDRAM SDUC Card SDXC Card SEC TFT VA SEC VAc Sector Secure Boot Seek Time Semantic Search Semi-Modular Power supply Sequential Read Speed Sequential Speed Sequential Write Speed Serial communications Serial interface Serial port SFF SFX Power Supply SFX-L Power Supply Shader Core Shading Shared Graphics Memory Sheet Fed Shockproof HDD Short Circuit Protection (SCP)Shutter Speed Signal to Noise Ratio (dB)Silicon chip Simplex transmission Single Channel Memory Single Rail PSU Single-Band Single-Core Performance Single-Player SLC NAND Sleeve Bearing Fan SM / Streaming Multiprocessor Small Language Model (SLM)SMART Smart home Smart Home App Smartphone Smartwatch SMR SMT / Simultaneous Multithreading SO-DIMM SoC (System on a Chip)SoC architecture Socket Compatibility Sound Pressure Level (SPL)Soundbar Southbridge Spatial Audio SPD (Serial Presence Detect)Speaker Speech-to-Text (STT)Speed Rating of RAM Spindle Spindle Speed (RPM)SpO2/Blood Oxygen Monitor SRAM SS IPS SSD SSD Endurance SSD Form Factor SSD Mounting Bracket Stable Diffusion Standby Standby Power (+5VSB)Standoff Static Pressure Air flow Stereo Calling Stream Processors Subnotebook computer Supervised Learning Surface Book Surface Duo Surface Studio Surge Protection Synthetic Data

X

X-PON X3D Processor x86 / x86-64 Xbox Xbox 360 XeSS (Xe Super Sampling)XLR Port XMP (Extreme Memory Profile)

Z

Z1 Z3 Zen Architecture Zero RPM Fan Mode Zero-Shot Learning ZX81