Technical Glossary (2260 terms)

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

• MOBA — Multiplayer Online Battle Arena — a competitive game genre. [ GAMING ]
• MQA — Master Quality Authenticated — a hi-res audio format. [ AUDIO ]
• MSAA — Multisample Anti-Aliasing — a quality smoothing method. [ GAMING ]
• MSI — Taiwanese brand making gaming laptops, GPUs, motherboards, and monitors. [ BRANDS ]
• MSI Cyborg — Product Lines [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• MSI Katana — MSI's value gaming laptop line. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• MSI Raider — MSI's flagship gaming laptop line. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• MSI Raider GE68 — MSI's flagship gaming laptop — launched in 2024. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• MSI Stealth — MSI's thin gaming laptop line. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• MSRP — Manufacturer's suggested retail price at launch; street prices usually fall over time. [ GENERAL ]
• MT/s — Megatransfers per second — the data rate of memory. [ MEMORY ]
• MTP — Storage [ STORAGE ]
• MUX Switch — A hardware switch that lets a laptop GPU drive the screen directly for more gaming performance. [ GAMING ]
• Mac mini — Product Lines [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• MacBook — Apple's laptop line running macOS. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• MacBook Air — Apple's thin, fanless laptop line. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• MacBook Air M1 — Apple's fanless ultrabook with the M1 chip — launched in 2020. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• MacBook Air M2 — Apple's redesigned ultrabook with the M2 chip — launched in 2022. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• MacBook Air M3 — Apple's ultrabook with the M3 chip — launched in 2024. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• MacBook Air M4 — Apple's ultrabook with the M4 chip — launched in 2025. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• MacBook Pro — Apple's professional laptop line. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• MacBook Pro 14 — Apple's pro laptop with a 14-inch Liquid Retina XDR display — launched in 2021. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• MacBook Pro 16 — Apple's large pro laptop — launched in 2021. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• MagicOS — Honor's Android skin. [ SOFTWARE ]
• MagicOS 9 — Software [ SOFTWARE ]
• Mali — Arm's GPU brand used in many MediaTek, Exynos, and Kirin SoCs. [ BRANDS ]
• Mali-G57 — Chips [ CHIPS ]
• Mali-G610 — Chips [ CHIPS ]
• Mali-G615 — Chips [ CHIPS ]
• Mali-G710 — Arm's high-end GPU used in the Dimensity 9000 (launched in 2022). [ CHIPS ]
• Mali-G720 — Arm's GPU used in the Dimensity 9300 (launched in 2023). [ CHIPS ]
• Mali-G76 — Chips [ CHIPS ]
• Mali-G78 — Arm's flagship GPU used in the Exynos 2100 (launched in 2020). [ CHIPS ]
• Mali-G925 — Arm's flagship GPU used in the Dimensity 9400 (launched in 2024). [ CHIPS ]
• Marvell — Chip designer for networking, storage, and Arm-based processors. [ BRANDS ]
• MatePad — Huawei's Android/HarmonyOS tablet line. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• Maxon — Developer of Cinema 4D and the Cinebench rendering benchmark. [ BRANDS ]
• Maxwell — NVIDIA's GPU architecture used in GTX 900 and GTX 750 (2014). [ CHIPS ]
• MediaTek — Taiwanese chip designer producing Dimensity and Helio SoCs used across midrange and flagship phones. [ BRANDS ]
• Megabits per second — A network speed unit. [ GENERAL ]
• Megabyte — One million bytes. [ GENERAL ]
• Megahertz — One million hertz. [ GENERAL ]
• Megapixel — One million pixels in a camera sensor; more MP can mean more detail, but sensor size matters more. [ CAMERA ]
• Memory Bandwidth — How much data memory can move per second (GB/s); crucial for GPU and SoC performance. [ MEMORY ]
• Meteor Lake — Intel's Core Ultra 1st-gen microarchitecture with tile design and NPU (2023). [ CHIPS ]
• MicroLED — An emerging emissive display using microscopic LEDs; promises OLED contrast with no burn-in and extreme brightness. [ DISPLAY ]
• MicroSD — Removable flash cards that expand a phone or tablet's storage if a slot is available. [ STORAGE ]
• Microsoft — US software company behind Windows, Surface devices, and Xbox. [ BRANDS ]
• Milan — AMD codename for the EPYC 7003 server series. [ CHIPS ]
• Mini-LED — LCD with thousands of small LEDs for local dimming, improving contrast close to OLED at lower cost. [ DISPLAY ]