Technical Glossary (1935 terms)

Standardized hardware and benchmark definitions across smartphones, laptops, CPUs, GPUs, SoCs, and tablets.

• Honor Magic 7 — Honor's flagship with a large battery launched in 2025. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• Hopper — Hopper is Nvidia's data-centre GPU architecture for AI and HPC. [ CHIPS ]
• Huawei — Chinese tech giant making Mate, P/Pura, and nova phones plus Kirin chips and HarmonyOS. [ BRANDS ]
• Huawei Mate 70 Pro — Huawei's flagship with Kirin 9100 launched in 2024. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• Huawei Pura — Huawei's premium camera line, formerly the P series. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• HyperOS — HyperOS is Xiaomi's Android-based interface, replacing MIUI. [ SOFTWARE ]
• HyperOS 2 — HyperOS 2 is a generation of Xiaomi's Android interface. [ SOFTWARE ]
• IBM — US company behind POWER processors, mainframes, and early PC architecture. [ BRANDS ]
• IEEE — Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers — publishes Wi-Fi (802.11) and Ethernet standards. [ BRANDS ]
• IGZO — Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide — a high-performance transistor backplane material. [ DISPLAY ]
• INT8 — 8-bit integer precision, common for quantized AI inference. [ CHIPS ]
• IOPS — Input/Output operations per second — a storage performance metric. [ STORAGE ]
• IP53 — IP53 rates a device as dust-protected and resistant to light spray. [ DURABILITY ]
• IP54 — IP54 rates a device as dust-protected and resistant to splashes. [ DURABILITY ]
• IP68 — Ingress protection: dust-tight (6) and submersible to 1.5 m+ for 30 min (8). [ DURABILITY ]
• IP69K — Protection against high-pressure, high-temperature water jets. [ DURABILITY ]
• IPS LCD — Liquid-crystal display with in-plane switching for good color and viewing angles, lit by a backlight. [ DISPLAY ]
• IPX8 — IPX8 rates water resistance for immersion, with no dust rating given. [ DURABILITY ]
• IR blaster — An infrared emitter that controls TVs and appliances. [ CONNECTIVITY ]
• ISO — Sensor sensitivity; higher ISO brightens but adds noise. [ CAMERA ]
• ISP — The chip block that processes photos/video from the camera sensor before you see them. [ CAMERA ]
• Ice Lake — Ice Lake was an Intel laptop CPU generation from around 2019. [ CHIPS ]
• Icestorm — Apple's efficiency CPU core in the A14 and M1 chips. [ CHIPS ]
• Imagination Technologies — British GPU designer behind PowerVR graphics used in some SoCs. [ BRANDS ]
• Infineon — German semiconductor maker for automotive and power electronics. [ BRANDS ]
• Infinity Fabric — AMD's chip-to-chip interconnect used in Ryzen and EPYC. [ CHIPS ]
• Inspiron — Dell's mainstream consumer laptop and desktop line. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• Instruction Set — The vocabulary of operations a CPU understands (e.g., ARMv9, x86-64); defines compatibility and features. [ PERFORMANCE ]
• Integrated GPU — A GPU built into the CPU/SoC, sharing system memory — efficient but less powerful than a dedicated GPU. [ PERFORMANCE ]
• Intel — US chipmaker producing Core, Core Ultra, and Xeon processors plus Arc and Iris graphics. [ BRANDS ]
• Intel Arc A380 — Intel's budget first-gen Arc GPU (launched in 2022). [ CHIPS ]
• Intel Arc A750 — Intel's high-end first-gen Arc GPU (launched in 2022). [ CHIPS ]
• Intel Arc A770 — Intel's flagship first-gen Arc GPU (launched in 2022). [ CHIPS ]
• Iris Xe — Intel's integrated GPU brand in 11th-13th Gen Core CPUs. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• JBL — Harman audio brand known for portable speakers and TWS earbuds. [ BRANDS ]
• JPEG — The standard compressed image format used almost everywhere. [ CAMERA ]
• Japan Display Inc — Japanese display maker (JDI) producing LCD and OLED panels. [ BRANDS ]
• JetStream — JetStream is a browser benchmark for JavaScript and web-app performance. [ BENCHMARK ]
• Kepler — NVIDIA's GPU architecture used in GTX 600/700 series (2012). [ CHIPS ]
• Kilobyte — A kilobyte is one thousand bytes (or 1,024 in binary terms). [ GENERAL ]
• Kingston — Memory and storage maker known for HyperX gaming peripherals and RAM/SSD modules. [ BRANDS ]
• Kioxia — Japanese NAND flash maker (formerly Toshiba Memory), co-developer of BiCS flash. [ BRANDS ]
• Kirin — Kirin is Huawei's in-house mobile SoC family, made by HiSilicon. [ BRANDS ]
• Kirin 9100 — Huawei's flagship SoC used in the Mate 70 series (launched in 2024). [ CHIPS ]
• Kraken — Kraken is a JavaScript benchmark measuring web-app responsiveness. [ BENCHMARK ]
• Kryo — Qualcomm's CPU core branding used in Snapdragon SoCs. [ CHIPS ]
• L1 certification — Widevine L1 enables HD and 4K streaming on Netflix and similar. [ DISPLAY ]
• LCD — Liquid-Crystal Display — a backlit screen technology used in most budget devices. [ DISPLAY ]
• LE Audio — The new Bluetooth low-energy audio standard for better battery life, multi-stream, and broadcast. [ AUDIO ]
• LED backlight — An LCD backlight made of LEDs instead of cold-cathode tubes. [ DISPLAY ]