Computer processor terms

Computer processor terms with full definitions and information on each term. Explore this list of over 50 terms like CPU, core, GHz, and machine cycle. Navigate quickly through the list by clicking one of the letters below; for example, click 'H' to find terms like 'heat sink' in the 'H' section.

Definition of a computer processor Index of motherboard-related terms
Top 10 processor terms
Central Processing Unit Instruction set Core Machine cycle GHz Control unit Instructions Active heat sink Processing ALU
Number
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A
A4 processor Accumulator Active heat sink Adder ALU AMD AMD64 APU ARM processor Asymmetrical Asymmetrical multi-processing ATC Athlon Atom
B
Barrier BGA Branch prediction
C
Cache Cache flush CAS Celeron Central Processing Unit Ceramic Pin Grid Array CISC Clock cycle Clock-doubling Clock pulse Clock speed Cobra Column Access Strobe Complex Instruction Set Computer Computer instructions Concurrent computing Context switch Control unit Coppermine Coprocessor Core Core 2 Core 2 Duo Core 2 Extreme Core 2 Quad Core Duo Core i3 Core i5 Core i7 Core i9 Core logic Core Solo CPGA CPU CPU-Z Custom silicon
D
Data line Data path Digital Signal Processor Downclock DSP DTS Dual-core Dual processor Duron
E
EIST Embarrassingly parallel Epyc
F
Fab FC-PGA FinFET Fin field effect transistor Floating-point coprocessor FLOPS Flush FPU
G
GHz Green PC
H
Haswell Heat sink Heat sink backing plate Hertz Hexa-core Hyper-threading HyperTransport
I
i7 IA-32 IA-64 iCOMP ILP Infinity Fabric Instruction pipeline Instructions Instruction set Intel Intel Core Intel Core i7 Intel Core i9 Intel Ultra Path Interconnect Interposer ISA Itanium
J
Job number Job queue
K
KHz Killer micro Kilohertz
L
L1 cache L2 cache L3 cache Level 1 caching Level 2 cache Level 3 cache LGA LIF Liquid cooling Logic chip Low-insert force
M
Machine cycle Math coprocessor Megaflop Megahertz Meltdown and Spectre CPU vulnerabilities Memory dependence prediction Mendocino Mflop MHz Microcontroller Microprocessor MIMD MIPS MMU MMX Moore's Law MP1120 Multicore processor Multiplier Multiprocessing
N
NEC V20 NEC V30 NetBurst Numeric coprocessor
O
ODP ODPR Opteron Out-of-order execution Overclock OverDrive OverDrive Processor OverDrive Processor Replacement
P
P1 P2 P4 P5 P6 Package Parallelization Parallel processing Passive heat sink Pentium Pentium 4 Pentium II Pentium III Pentium III 533B Pentium III 600B Pentium IV Pentium M Pentium Pro PGA Pin Grid Array Pipeline Pipeline flush Pipelining PowerNow! PowerPC PPC PPGA Preprocessor Process Processing Processing capacity Processor Processor slot Processor throttling Program counter Protected mode Pumping
Q
Quad-core Quantum Computer
R
Real mode Register RISC Ryzen
S
Sandy Bridge SECC Secondary cache Sequential processing SIMD Single threading Slot Slot 1 Slot A Slotket SMI SMM SMP Snapdragon SoC Socket Socket 1 Socket 2 Socket 3 Socket 4 Socket 5 Socket 6 Socket 7 Socket 8 Socket 370 Socket 423 Socket 462 Socket 478 Socket 603 Socket 604 Socket 939 Socket A Socket AM2 Socket AM3 Socket F Solo SPARC SPEC code Speculative execution SpeedStep SPGA SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 Stack puke Superscalar
T
TDP Temperature Teraflop Tflop Thermal compound Thread Threadripper TLP TPM Trusted Execution Technology
U
Underclock UPI
V
V20 V30 VAX Virtual address extension Virtual core Virtual real mode VRM
W
Wait state Willamette Work stealing Wrapper
X
X86 Xeon Xeon Phi XScale
Y
Currently, no listings.
Z
Z80 Zen Zero out Zero wait state ZIF socket

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