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| Very thin piece of semiconductor material with elements of microscopic circuit such as cables, transits |
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| The part of a computer in which operations are controlled and executed. |
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| Arithmetic and logic unit |
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| Microprocessor unit in charge of executing arithmetic and logic operations. |
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| is a component of a computer's central processing unit (CPU) that directs operation of the processor. |
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| number of pulses per second generated by an oscillator that sets the tempo for the processor. |
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| the clock rate of a CPU; for example, 2 GHz means two billion cycles per second. |
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| s a unit of alternating current (AC) or electromagnetic (EM) wave frequency equal to one million hertz (1,000,000 Hz). |
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| a unit of measurement for alternating current (AC) or electromagnetic (EM) wave frequencies equal to 1,000,000,000 Hz. |
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| the number of bits in a word. |
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| lso called CPU memory, is random access memory (RAM) that a computer microprocessor can access more quickly than it can access regular RAM. |
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| A random-access memory device allows data items to be accessed (read or written) in almost the same amount of time irrespective of the physical location of data inside the memory. |
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| a class of storage medium used in computers and other electronic devices. Data stored in ROM can only be modified slowly, with difficulty, or not at all. |
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| is simply an acronym for complementary metal oxide semiconductor. CMOS simply describes the type of material from which this special memory is made. |
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| is an electronic non-volatile computer storage medium that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed. |
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| a port serves as an endpoint in an operating system for many types of communication. It is not a hardware device, but a logical construct that identifies a service or process. |
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| is a communication system that transfers data between components inside a computer, or between computers. |
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| is a printed circuit board that can be inserted into an electrical connector, or expansion slot on a computer motherboard, backplane or riser card to add functionality to a computer system via the expansion bus. |
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