GPU
GPU - Graphics Processing Unit - a hardware processor with many parallel elements for computing the aspects of a player's surroundings in a video game or the appearace of a...
Exabyte
Exabyte – 1,000 petabytes. See Decimal and Binary Prefix entry.
COW
COW - Copy-on-Write. See snapshot entry.
LSM Tree
Log-Structured Merge Tree - see separate entry.
CIFS
CIFS - Common Internet File System, pronounced 'sifs'. This is a Windows filesystem SMB (Server Message Block) dialect. The CIFS implementation of SMB is rarely used these days and...
Charge Trap
Charge Trap - Charge Trap transistors use an insulator, silicon nitride film, to store electrons in localized traps in a NAND or NOR cell. This is in contrast to NAND and...
CBA
CBA - CMOS directly Bonded to Array. In this NAND technology each CMOS control wafer and cell array wafer are manufactured separately and then bonded together to deliver, Kioxia...
CAS
CAS - Content Addressing System. A data item's contents are binary numbers. They can be mathematically manipulated by a cryptographic function to provide a hash or key, a...
Cache
Cache - A high-speed memory device that is faster than the memory or storage device otherwise used. For example, main memory can be used to cache data from SSDs...
Bit Line
Bit Line - Cells in a memory array, such as DRAM, are laid out in rows and a row is called a bit line (as in line of bits)....
MR-MUF
MR-MUF - Mass Reflow Molded Underfill - A method used by SK hynix in its HBM semiconductor manufacturing process. It involves the placing of multiple chips on the lower...
Bit
Bit – The smallest element of data in an IT system. It has a value of 1 or 0 and eight of them make up a byte. The letter A...