A CPU cache is small, very fast memory inside the processor that keeps recently used data and instructions close to the cores…
A capture card is a peripheral that receives a video signal from a console, camera or computer and converts it into a…
A chiplet is a small silicon die designed to be combined with other dies in one package, so that a large processor…
A chipset is the motherboard logic that connects the processor to storage, USB, networking and expansion slots, defining a board's features and…
Clock speed is the frequency, measured in gigahertz, at which a processor's clock signal advances its circuits through instruction cycles.
A computer mouse is a hand-operated pointing device that turns hand movement into cursor motion and adds buttons and a wheel for…
A CPU, or central processing unit, is the general-purpose processor that fetches, decodes and executes the instructions of every program on a…
A CPU core is an independent processing unit within a processor that fetches, decodes and executes instructions, with its own registers and…
A CPU thread is a hardware execution context that lets a processor core run an independent instruction stream, often two per core…
CUDA is NVIDIA's parallel computing platform and programming model that lets developers run general-purpose code on the thousands of cores of a…
A CUDA core is NVIDIA's name for a single scalar arithmetic lane in a GPU streaming multiprocessor that executes floating-point and integer…