Technical Glossary (2260 terms)

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

• LED backlight — An LCD backlight made of LEDs instead of cold-cathode tubes. [ DISPLAY ]
• LFP — Lithium iron phosphate battery — long-lasting but lower density. [ BATTERY ]
• LG Display — Korean display maker producing OLED, IPS, and mini-LED panels for TVs, phones, and laptops. [ BRANDS ]
• LG Velvet — LG's short-lived premium phone line before it exited the market. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• LG Wing — LG's swivel-display phone experiment. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• LG gram 16 — LG's ultra-light 16-inch laptop — launched in 2024. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• LHDC — A high-resolution Bluetooth audio codec. [ AUDIO ]
• LOD — Level of Detail — using simpler models at distance. [ GAMING ]
• LOFIC — A sensor design that adds storage capacitance for wider dynamic range. [ CAMERA ]
• LOG — A flat video profile that preserves dynamic range for grading. [ CAMERA ]
• LPDDR — Low-power DDR memory used in mobile devices. [ MEMORY ]
• LPDDR2 — Memory [ MEMORY ]
• LPDDR3 — Memory [ MEMORY ]
• LPDDR4 — Low-power DDR4 used in phones and tablets. [ MEMORY ]
• LPDDR5 — Low-power DDR memory generations; LPDDR5X is faster (up to ~8533 MT/s) and more efficient. [ MEMORY ]
• LPDDR5T — A faster LPDDR5X variant. [ MEMORY ]
• LTE Advanced — An improved LTE standard with carrier aggregation. [ CONNECTIVITY ]
• LTE-A Pro — A further-evolved LTE standard. [ CONNECTIVITY ]
• LTPO — Backplane tech allowing 1-120 Hz adaptive refresh to save battery while keeping motion smooth. [ DISPLAY ]
• LTPS — Low-Temperature Poly-Silicon — an efficient LCD/OLED backplane technology. [ DISPLAY ]
• Latitude — Dell's business laptop line. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• Legion — Lenovo's gaming laptop and desktop line. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• Legion 5 Pro — Product Lines [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• Leica — Camera [ CAMERA ]
• Lenovo — Chinese PC maker known for ThinkPad, IdeaPad, Legion, and Yoga lines. [ BRANDS ]
• Lenovo Legion 5 — Lenovo's mainstream gaming laptop — launched in 2023. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• Lenovo Legion 7i — Lenovo's premium gaming laptop — launched in 2024. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• Lenovo Tab — Lenovo's Android tablet line. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• Li-Ion — The rechargeable lithium battery chemistry used in nearly all phones and laptops. [ BATTERY ]
• Lightning — Apple's performance CPU core in the A13 chip. [ CHIPS ]
• Linux — An open-source operating system kernel. [ SOFTWARE ]
• Liquid Metal — A high-performance thermal interface used instead of paste; cools CPUs/GPUs far better but is tricky to apply. [ PERFORMANCE ]
• Liquid Retina — Apple's brand name for IPS LCD displays. [ DISPLAY ]
• Liquid Retina XDR — Apple's mini-LED display used in iPad Pro and MacBook Pro. [ DISPLAY ]
• Lithography — The size of the smallest transistor features; smaller generally means more efficient. [ PERFORMANCE ]
• Live Activities — Software [ SOFTWARE ]
• Lunar Lake — Intel's efficient Core Ultra 200V microarchitecture (2024). [ CHIPS ]
• M-series chip — Chips [ CHIPS ]
• M.2 — A small SSD form factor that plugs into a motherboard slot. [ STORAGE ]
• M.2 slot — Storage [ STORAGE ]
• MCM — Multi-chip module — a package containing several dies. [ CHIPS ]
• MIL-STD-810 — A US military standard for ruggedness testing. [ DURABILITY ]
• MIMO — Multiple-Input Multiple-Output — using multiple antennas for speed. [ CONNECTIVITY ]
• MIMO layers — Connectivity [ CONNECTIVITY ]
• MIUI — Xiaomi's former Android skin. [ SOFTWARE ]
• MLA — Micro Lens Array — a lens layer that boosts OLED brightness. [ DISPLAY ]
• MLC — Multi-Level Cell NAND — two bits per cell. [ STORAGE ]
• MLO — Multi-Link Operation — a Wi-Fi 7 feature using multiple bands at once. [ CONNECTIVITY ]
• MLPerf — An industry benchmark for AI and ML performance. [ BENCHMARK ]
• MMX — Intel's legacy multimedia SIMD extension. [ CHIPS ]