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...
Log-Structured Merge Tree
Log-Structured Merge Tree – The Log-Structured Merge Tree concept is used for ingesting and indexing data and persisting it to storage by application storage engines. It has ordered key:value pairs...
B-Tree
B-Tree – A method used by application storage engines for writing, reading and indexing data optimised for reading. One way of writing data is just to append it to existing...
Binary Number
Binary number – a number written in base 2 notation which uses only the numerals 0 and 1. The binary numbers are written as 8-bit bytes and here is a...
Binary
Binary – (1) refers to computer code, (2) refers to a choice between two alternatives. Binary computer code replaces decimal numbers and alphabetic characters and symbols with streams of binary...
Azure
Azure – This is Microsoft’s public cloud offering and provides application, compute, storage and system application services. It is the second largest public cloud after AWS and the second largest...
AWS
AWS – Amazon Web Services. This is Amazon’s public cloud offering and provides application, compute and storage services plus system application services. It is the world's largest public cloud and...
Autoloader
Autoloader – A tape storage devce with a drive and slots for holding tape cartridges. These are automatically loaded into the drive and removed from it by some kind of...
ATA
ATA – Advanced Technology Attachment. This is a class of protocols for attaching storage drives to host computers. PATA (Parallel ATA) and SATA (Serial ATA) are versions of this. There...