Processor terms Updated: 04/12/2021 by Computer Hope 0-9ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 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 3DNow! 286 287 386 386DX 386SL 486 486DX 486DX4 486SL 486SX 486SX2 586 4004 8080 8086 8087 68000 80286 80287 80386 80386DX 80386SL 80387DX 80486 80486DX 80486DX4 80486SL 80486SX 80486SX2 88000 A Accumulator Active heat sink Adder ALU AMD AMD64 ARM processor Asymmetrical Asymmetrical multi-processing ATC Athlon Atom B BGA Branch prediction C 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 Concurrent computing Context switch Control unit Coppermine Coprocessor Core Core 2 Duo Core 2 Extreme Core 2 Quad Core Duo Core logic Core Solo CPGA CPU CPU-Z 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 Fin field effect transistor Floating-point coprocessor FLOPS FPU G GHz H Haswell Heat sink Heat sink backing plate Hertz Hexa-core Hyper-threading HyperTransport I i7 IA-32 IA-64 iCOMP ILP Infinity Fabric Instructions Instruction set Intel Intel Core Intel Core i9 Interposer ISA Itanium J Job number Job queue K KHz Killer micro L L1 L2 L3 Level 1 caching Level 2 caching Level 3 caching LGA LIF Liquid cooling Logic chip Low-insert force M Machine cycle Math coprocessor Megaflops Meltdown and Spectre CPU vulnerabilities Memory dependence prediction Mendocino Microcontroller Microprocessor MIPS MMU MMX Moore's Law MP1120 Multi-core Multiplier Multiprocessing N NEC V20 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 PPGA Preprocessor Process Processing Processing capacity Processor Processor slot Processor throttling Program counter Protected mode Q Quad-core R Real mode 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 SPARC SPEC code Speculative execution SpeedStep SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 Stack puke Superscalar T Temperature Teraflop Tflop Thermal compound Threadripper TLP Trusted Execution Technology U Underclock V V20 V30 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 ZIF socket Back to the computer dictionary
